Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945

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Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Evan Burr Bukey's meticulous new study offers the definitive account of juvenile crime in Nazi-era Vienna. In analyzing the records of juvenile delinquency in Vienna during the Anschluss era, this book explores the impact the Juvenile Criminal Code had on the Viennese youth who were brought before the bench for deviant behavior. Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna addresses one key question: to what extent did Nazi rule constitute a rupture in the Austrian juvenile justice system? Ultimately this book reveals how, despite National Socialist institutions pervading Austrian society between 1938 and 1945, the survival of the indigenous legal order preserved a sense of regional identity that helps to explain the success of the Second Austrian Republic following the collapse of the Third Reich.

Evan Burr Bukey is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Arkansas, USA. He is the author of Jews and Intermarriage in Nazi Austria (2011), Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945 (2000), and Hitler's Hometown: Linz, Austria, 1908-1945 (1986). His works have been translated into German, Czech and Slovak.

Bukey's book lays out the key paths in taking this important research forward and ... fills an important gap from which others may examine the connection between Austrian legal continuity during the Nazi era and the success of the Second Republic. * Austrian History Yearbook * Already one of the most respected historians of Nazi-era Austria writing in English, Evan Burr Bukey draws on a wealth of largely unreferenced primary sources to explore juvenile delinquency and state control from a fresh angle, and situates Viennese experiences within the larger framework of Nazi Germany. This suggestive study points to new directions for inquiry into how justice functioned - and the experiences of those affected - in local contexts throughout Nazi-dominated Europe. * Matthew P. Berg, Professor of History, John Carroll University, USA * Underpinned by meticulous research, this fascinating study provides illuminating glimpses into the twilight world of juvenile criminality in Nazi Vienna. * Dr Robert Knight, Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, UK *