Has Austria learnt its lesson from history? What about Austria’s part of responsibility for the Holocaust? Developments on the local level indicate the country’s temper very well. Efforts to remembrance of Sinti and Roma, who were deported to Concentration Camps from Salzburg, was an unpopular issue in council meetings in the 1980s. Huge protests took place against the installation of a Roma and Sinti monument. Today one cannot doubt that at least the officials of Salzburg stick by their historical responsibility. What effect did this change of mind during the last 20 years have?
Georg Wimmer has created the following broadcast, about the forms of remembrance projects of schools and NGO’s.