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From Nationalism to Nazism: Adolf Hitler in Vienna
Joined 2022
From Nationalism to Nazism. Adolf Hitler as the best example of how this dark history has developed. A tour of Vienna's inner city that locates the historical events in such a way that the overview can be kept and easily understood.
Itinerary
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Meeting Point
Helmut Zilk Platz or at your Hotel
Helmut Zilk Platz
Memorial against war and fascism
Meeting place Greeting
History and significance of the Hrdlicka Memorial
Operngasse corner Hanuschgasse
Adolf Hitler as an opera fanatic, using the example of the Wagner productions of the court opera director Gustav Mahler and the importance of the stage designer Alfred Roller
corner of Ringstraße and Operngasse
History of the Ringstrasse, the expansion of the city and the rise of anti-Semitism
The Ringstrasse as the stage for the great Anschluss Parade.
Vienna as a unique venue for particularly cruel excesses of anti-Semitism and as a test city for the Final Solution logistics.
academy of fine arts
Overview of Hitler's early live and career until 1914. His "artist's career" in Vienna and his way into homelessness until the men's dormitory Meldemannstraße
Eagles door with architectural view of the Flak tower
The Eagles door as an example of illegal Nazis working towards the Anschluss.
The functioning of Nazi propaganda and propaganda architecture using the example of the flak towers
heroes square
Hitler's further career from 1913 to 1933 in Germany from stateless private to leader of the NSDAP, attempted coup, prison, stock market crash, stoking fears, landslide victory in 1933, complete takeover of state affairs to the Anschluss speech from the balcony of the new Hofburg.
inner courtyard Hofburg castle statue of Franz II / I.
Short historical excursus on the emergence of nationalism per se since the end of the 18th century. Emperor Franz the Second First as host of the Congress of Vienna.
View on Parliament heroes square
The Austrian Parliament as Hitler's learning field for the difficulties of democracy at that time,
The use of enemy images using the example of v. Schönerer and Dr Karl Lueger.
Federal Chancellery
View of the Federal Chancellery: Political background to Hitler's invasion of Austria. Putsch attempt with the assassination of Dollfuss, lost Abyssinia war of Italy, axis Berlin Rome, loss of protection by Italy enables the invasion.
Ballhausplatz
View of the monument to those persecuted by Nazi justice: explanation of the symbolism of the monument and the importance of the resistance to the State Treaty.
Minoritenplatz Leopold Figl Monument
End of the Second World War, Hitler's suicide, occupation period (division of Vienna, First District "Four in a Jeep"). State Treaty 1955. Nowadays still existing nationalism and Nazism in the second democratic republic of Austria
Ending Point
Minoritenplatz
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Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee hotel pick-up
lunch
Tour Important Information
A walking tour definitely handicapped accessible.
Mondays through Fridays only after 1600 o'clock except holydays and school holydays
Weekends any time
Important message from the supplier
Hallstadt, Bad Ischl, Salzburg, Wachau Valley, Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, Budapest
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2022
About Tour Guide Florian B.
The soul behind the scenes or: The core beyond your expectations
Looking behind the scenes and telling stories has always been my passion. Growing up in Salzburg and the Salzkammergut region, I have loved finding out exciting things in the simplest of things since childhood and passing on what I have found out is actually an even greater one. What good is all that "useless knowledge" if you can't share it?
25 years as a production manager and researcher in film have made me sure that what's behind is more exciting than what you see in the first moment. My enthusiasm for the story at hand sometimes carries me away in such a way that I find it hard to let it fall into secrecy.
And then the idea came up to turn all this knowledge and the desire to pass it on into something meaningful. From there it was not far to the training as a guide. Three years later and a few exams later I started to practice this profession and I realize that it is more and more fun to see how people get involved in what I am telling them.
As a guide, I don't see myself as a data mediator, but rather as the one who brings the local attitude to life closer to his guests and makes it possible to experience it; this is not possible with pure numbers, data and facts, which are also important, but it is much more important for me to bring out the individual fates and their influences up to the present day.
Of course, this may, no! - must sometimes come along with a mischievous wink, it is precisely the irony and humor that make up the actual "flavor" of things. Truth is too important a commodity to be sacrificed to pure objectivity, since it is never black and white and can usually only be found between the lines. I have always been searching for this truth and it is important to me to convey it.
$625/ per group
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