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Bauer lookedold forhis57years.107Nevertheless,hedidnot stopwritingand
publishinguntilhis finalhours.His last twoarticlesweregrief-strickenmoral
demands. In ‘Nach derAnnexion’ (‘After theAnnex’), he called for a critical
instead of reactionary approach to Austria’s Anschluss: a common struggle
against fascismalongsidetheworkingclassofGermany. ‘Ichappelliereandas
GewissenderWelt’(‘IAppealtotheConscienceoftheWorld’),whichhewrote
just hours before his death,was dedicated to the 300,000Austrian Jews and
mass deportations toDachau concentration camp.Hepleaded to save those
whoweretargetedbythefascist terror.
Thematerialpresentedinthischaptercontainsonlythemostimportantevents
inBauer’s vast theoretical andpolitical activity andpolitical directionof the
sdap.Readerswill find that the followingchapters examine these themes in
moredetail,yetwewillsometimesneedtoreacquaintourselveswiththisbasic
chronology–afterall, it is impossibletoabstractthephilosophical, social,and
politicalconceptsofadedicatedsocialist fromhispracticalactions.
107 SeeLeserandBerczeller 1977,p. 140.
Otto Bauer (1881–1938)
Thinker and Politician
- Title
- Otto Bauer (1881–1938)
- Subtitle
- Thinker and Politician
- Author
- Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp
- Publisher
- Brill
- Location
- Leiden
- Date
- 2017
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-32583-8
- Size
- 7.9 x 12.0 cm
- Pages
- 444
- Keywords
- Otto Bauer, Österreich, Österreichische, Politiker, Denker, Austomarxismus, Sozialismus, Moral, Imperialismus, Nation, Demokratie, Revolution, Staat, Faschismus, Krieg, SDAP
- Category
- Biographien