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World Service,11 Oct 2018,9 mins

Austria at War

Witness History

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In October 1945, Austria got its first provisional government since its annexation by Nazi Germany a year before the Second World War. Wilfriede Iwaniuk was 14 when Hitler marched into Vienna; she tells Louise Hidalgo about the harshness of the war years and how, after the war too, there was no food and few jobs. Picture: Wilfriede Iwaniuk in 1946.(Credit: the Iwaniuk family)

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