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.

Questions asked by the editorial board are answered by experts on the subject: Pál Pritz, Gábor Székely, István Ravasz, Péter Sipos, Éva Varga and Péter Konok.

Imre Kabai: Social stratification and life events. The Hungarian youth in the postindustrial age,
Új Mandátum Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005.