A Summary of Past Contributions and Future Needs

  • Tony Radspieler
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Part of the Studies in Social Life book series (SOSL, volume 2)

Abstract

The extent of the Austrian contribution to the refugees on her soil is magnified if we consider Austria’s limited capacity during this period in which the small nation was struggling to restore her devastated economy, whilst she was also carrying the burden of sizable occupation costs, and endeavoring to maintain her territorial unity in the midst of the East-West tension. Austria as a war-ravaged and occupied country was hardly physically nor administratively able (during the early years) to cope with the refugee situation which descended upon her.

Keywords

Austrian Economy Refugee Population Refugee Problem Agrarian Sector Past Contribution 
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Reference

  1. a.
    Ca. 85 million U.S. dollars. Austrian Federal Ministry of Interior, Department 12U, Vienna.Google Scholar
  2. b.
    See Welfare section, footnote b, p. 148.Google Scholar
  3. a.
    Jäger, G., op.cit., p. 39.Google Scholar
  4. b.
    Indications are that the rate of employment of the ethnic Germans is as high if not higher than the indigenous rate. This may be so because many are in the lower wage brackets working in the less attractive and more drugerous jobs.Google Scholar
  5. c.
    Income taxes and other forms of revenue paid by the ethnic Germans from 1945 to 1950 have been estimated to be in the vicinity of 1,500 million A/S. Source: Goldschmidt, H., “Volksdeutsche-grosser Aktivposten,” Reprint from the Neuland, Salzburg, November 6, 1950.Google Scholar
  6. a.
    These 12 points were translated from the German which appeared in the Evan-gelische Flüchtlingshilfe Nachrichtendienst der Evangelischen Kirche A.u.H.B. in Österreich, Issue Nr. 112, Vienna, December 1953, p. 2.Google Scholar
  7. b.
    The 12 points also concern the non-German-speaking refugees.Google Scholar

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© Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1955

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tony Radspieler
    • 1
  1. 1.ZurichSwitzerland

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