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Allied-occupied Austria
Sign in to savepost-World War II Allied occupation of Austria (1945-1955)
Key facts
- 1945
- Karl Renner
- 1955
- 6,947,000
- Status
- Military occupation
- Capital
- Vienna
- Common languages
- Austrian German , Austro-Bavarian , Alemannic
- Religion
- Christianity ( Catholic , Eastern Orthodox , Protestant )
- Demonym
- Austrian
- Government
- Dependent federal parliamentary republic
- 1945 1950
- Karl Renner
- 1951 1955
- Theodor Körner
- 1945 1953
- Leopold Figl
- 1953 1955
- Julius Raab
- Capture of vienna
- 13 April 1945
- Established
- 27 April 1945
- End of world war ii
- 8 May 1945
- Austrian state treaty
- 27 July 1955
- Last allies left
- 25 October 1955
- Currency
- Austrian schilling
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
At the end of World War II in Europe, Austria was occupied by the Allies and declared independence from Nazi Germany on 27 April 1945 (confirmed by the Berlin Declaration for Germany on 5 June 1945), as a result of the Vienna offensive. The occupation ended when the Austrian State Treaty came into force on 27 July 1955.
After the Anschluss in 1938, Austria had generally been recognized as part of Nazi Germany. In November 1943, however, the Allies agreed in the Declaration of Moscow that Austria would instead be regarded as the first victim of Nazi aggression—without denying Austria's role in Nazi crimes—and treated as a liberated and independent country after the war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Allied-occupied Austria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.