The article makes an attempt to revise the image of the Austrian national memory of Austria's participation in World War II. The author – on the basis of a well-documented case study in Burgenland – comes to the conclusion that the local community accepted the racist policy and genocide by the nazis, or at least they resigned themselves to it, and the final disappointment only came at the time when total war was threatening Burgenland, too.

Table of contents

1. Krausz Tamás : Anniversaries
2. Varga Éva, Konok Péter, Sipos Péter, Székely Gábor, Pritz Pál, Ravasz István : World War II ended 60 years ago
3. M. Ju. Mjagkov : The battle of Kursk in light of new sources from Russia
4. Albert Axell : Marshall Zhukov: the man who defeated Hitler
5. Note on the conversation between V. M. Molotov and A. Eden on 10 October 1944
6. Pieter Lagrou : The memory of war in Western Europe, 1939-1945
7. O. A. Alexandrov : On the book by Anthony Beevor: The Downfall, 1945
8. Szepes Erika : The book of a reasonable man. On The twentieth century as I lived through it. By Miklos Farkas
9. Hegyi Gyula : „In the state under the rule of law, the weapon is money.” A contemporary socialist poet. On István Mészáros: Attila József and modern art and on Ferenc Fejtő: From Monarchy to globalization
10. Tütő László : The rich and the poor – II.
11. Tverdota György : The vivacity of Attila József’s lyric poetry of the „last century” in the beginning of the 21st century
12. Valachi Anna : Girls and married women near Attila József
13. Földes György : „You should be the seventh yourself „: Attila József and the proletariat.
14. Szőke György : „…The movement is waiting for you …” (Re)interpretation of the lines of Attila József
15. Böcskei Balázs : The ideology of society or the society of ideology
16. Szabó Gábor : Environmental ethics and „turbo-capitalism”
17. Mark Pittaway : The conclusion of the past in the postwar Austria. Remembrance, national socialism and the interpretation of 1945 in North-Burgenland

The nazi Germany – consistently with its racist ideology – pursued a totally different type of war in the East than in the West. According to the author, this difference was not reflected in the western european image of the war, which attempted to create a collective, national experience of the sufferings that in reality was the share of only some segments of the society, most importantly of Jewish citizens. In this way, common national remembrance is necessarily illusory: the fragmented and disrupted experience of World War II can only leave behind a fragmented and disrupted remembrance in Western Europe.