From Vienna to New York and Beyond: Interwar Austrian Political Networks and Émigré Culture

• In Event: Habsburg Experts between Austria-Hungary and the United States

Abstract

In the 1930s, Austrian politicians streamed into exile in two distinct waves. After the Austrian Civil War and with the creation of the authoritarian Ständestaat, Austria’s socialists fled the country. Many in this group found themselves in New York. This paper contends that although public social and political divisions from the fractious First Republic were still evident among exiled Austrians, over time a surprising collegial culture came to exist among émigrés and shaped their postwar interactions.

Author

• James McSpadden, U of Nevada, Reno