Vigil to remember the Anschluss in Austria

March 13, 2008

Organizers projected the name of every known victim on a screen in the giant Heldenplatz - or Heroes Square - where seven decades ago hundreds of thousands gathered to hear Hitler announce the absorption of his homeland into the "Third Reich." This Vienna resident was there when she was just fourteen years old. Organizers projected the name of every known victim on a screen in the giant Heldenplatz - or Heroes Square - where seven decades ago hundreds of thousands gathered to hear Hitler announce the absorption of his homeland into the "Third Reich." This Vienna resident was there when she was just fourteen years old.