Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the middle of the war, the Viennese have felt hunger. Today, Vienna's once brimming Naschmarkt is closed down except for an occasional cabbage or flower counter, and Viennese eat about as much in one day as an American eats for breakfast. The weekly ration (except for heavy workers) consists of one loaf of bread, two ounces of dried meat, three ounces of fat, a cup and a half of flour, a cup and a half of dried peas and five ounces of sugar. Many Viennese know that they would not be eating at all this month...
...Viennese are drably dressed these days, for there are no textiles anywhere in Austria; on the black market a pair of men's shoes costs $200, and a pair of silk stockings $25. Vienna's health is poor, with 1,000 new TB cases each month and a heavy VD rate...
...vegetable gardens, though many parks had already been used for another purpose: the burying of Red Army dead. The Hotel Sacher, which had witnessed much of the monarchy's history and more of its amours, is now a British officers' club. In the Kärntner Strasse (Vienna's Fifth Avenue) the stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high altar exposed to the sky. But its 500-year-old spire still rises above Vienna in slender majesty. Viennese, this...
...miraculous survival was one of the few signs of comfort the Viennese found in their city. Another was the battered but unbowed survival of the huge community housing projects which Vienna's Socialists had built for their workers in their brief, triumphant decades before Hitler. The gaunt spire in the center of the city and the workers' fortresslike homes on the outskirts (which Catholic Chancellor Dolfuss shelled in the bitter years of civil discord) were both symbols of Vienna's different pasts. They were also symbols of two sturdy European forces, Catholicism and Socialism. From the present...
...government that tied Catholics and Socialists together got its start through the Russians. At Easter-time 1945, when the Russians were driving into Austria, Socialist Sage Dr. Karl Renner, one of the country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon...