“Because Jews cannot be admitted to a doctoral defense”
It was with these words that just after the Anschluss the Jewish student Karl Löwy who had submitted his doctoral thesis at the Hochschule für Welthandel in Vienna only weeks before was denied the conferral of his doctorate degree. Starting in the second half of March 1938, the Nazis began to systematically persecute those…
The Nazi persecution of lecturers and administrators has been dealt with in scolarly texts and memorial texts of the Hochschule für Welthandel (University of World Trade) in the aftermath of the Second World War. In November 2012 we began intensive research on the students. Their names and fates constitute the biggest part of this memorial book and of a monument that has been i…