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Mag. Dr. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

Born 1952, Vienna, Austria

Studied social science, economics and history at Vienna University (Master of Social and Economic Science, Dr. phil.)

Since 1979 Staff member of Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance

since 1993-94 Instructor, Institute of Political Science, Vienna University

Dr. Bailer-Galanda has researched and published on the Nazi era in Austria, particularly on the resistance movement and Nazi persecution, and on racism and rightist extremism after 1945 with special emphasis on Nazi apologists and Holocaust deniers as well as the problems of compensation for Nazi victims and the Austrian response to the country's Nazi past in general.

Selected publications

Own publications or co-editor:

Wiedergutmachung - kein Thema. Österreich und die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus [Compensation - Not a Suitable Subject: Austria and the Victims of Nazism], Vienna 1993;

With Wolfgang Neugebauer, "... ihrer Überzeugung treu geblieben". Rechtsextremisten, "Revisionisten" und Antisemiten in Österreich [on the extreme right, revisionism and anti-Semitism in Austria], Stiftung Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes [Foundation for the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance] (ed.), Vienna 1996;

Co-editor and contributor with Wolfgang Benz and Wolfgang Neugebauer, Wahrheit und "Auschwitzlüge". Zur Bekämpfung "revisionistischer" Propaganda [Truth and "Auschwitz Lie". How to counter revisionist propaganda], Vienna 1995, expanded edition under licence in Germany;

Die Auschwitzleugner. "Revisionistische" Geschichtslüge und historische Wahrheit [Those Who Deny Auschwitz: "Revisionist" Historical Lies and Historical Truth], Berlin 1996 (co-editor and contributor).

Contributor:

  • Erzählte Geschichte. Berichte von Widerstandkämpfern und Verfolgern und Verfolgten, Vol. 1: Arbeiterbewegung [Vol. 1 - dealing with the workers' movement - of an oral history collection featuring resistance fighters, persecutors and persecuted people], ed. Stiftung Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, Vienna 1985 (contributor and project director);
  • Jüdische Schicksale, Berichte von Verfolgten [Jewish Stories: Reports by Persecuted Persons], ed. Stiftung Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, Vienna 1992 (vol. 3 of Erzählte Geschichte [Oral History]), (contributor and project director);
  • "Verfolgt und vergessen. Die Diskriminierung einzelner Opfergruppen durch die Opferfürsorgegesetzgebung" [on discrimination against certain categories of victims in Austrian legislation], in: Yearbook 1992, Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, pp. 13-25, Vienna 1992;
  • "'Ohne den Staat weiter damit zu belasten ...' Bemerkungen zur österreichischen Rückstellungsgesetzgebung" ["Without Creating Additional Burdens for the State": Notes on Austrian Restitution Legislation] in: Zeitgeschichte 11/12 (1993), pp. 367-381;
  • "Gleiches Recht für alle? Die Behandlung von Opfern und Tätern des Nationalsozialismus durch die Republik Österreich" [Equal Rights for All? The Treatment of Nazi Victims and Nazi Perpetrators by the Republic of Austria], in: Der Umgang mit dem Holocaust. Europa-USA-Israel [Coming to Terms with the Holocaust: Europe-USA-Israel], ed. Rolf Steininger, pp. 183-197 Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 1994 (Publications of the Contemporary History Department of Innsbruck University and the Jewish Museum of Hohenems, Vol. 1);
  • "Anschreiben gegen die Leugner, Neue Literatur zum Thema "Revisionismus'" [Writing against the Deniers: New Literature on the Subject of "Revisionism"], in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung [Yearbook for Research on Anti-Semitism], ed. Wolfgang Benz for the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism of the Berlin Technical University, pp. 287-300, Frankfurt and New York 1995;
  • "Das Konzentrationslager Mauthausen" (Mauthausen Concentration Camp) in: Simon Wiesenthal, Denn sie wußten, was sie tun. Zeichnungen und Aufzeichnungen aus dem KZ Mauthausen [For They Knew What They Were Doing: Drawings and Notes from Mauthausen Concentration Camp], pp. 11-13, Vienna 1995;
  • "'Alle haben gleich gelitten?' Antisemitismus in der Auseinandersetzung um die sogenannte 'Wiedergutmachung'" [All Suffered to the Same Extent? Anti-Semitism in the Debate about So-Called 'Reparation'], in: Die Macht der Bilder. Antisemitische Vorurteile und Mythen [The Power of Images: Anti-Semitic Prejudices and Myths], ed. Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien [Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna], pp. 333-345, Vienna 1995;
  • "Die sogenannte 'Auschwitz-Lüge' - neue Ausdruckform für althergebrachten Antisemitismus" [The So-Called 'Auschwitz Lie' - a New Expression of Traditional Anti-Semitism], in: Die Macht der Bilder. Antisemitische Vorurteile und Mythen, ed. Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, pp. 360-365, Vienna 1995;
  • "Alle waren Opfer. Der selektive Umgang mit den Folgen des Nationalsozialismus" [They Were All Victims: The Selective Treatment of the Consequences of Nazism], in: Wolfgang Kos and Georg Rigele (ed.) Inventur 45/55. Österreich im ersten Jahrzehnt der Zweiten Republik [Stocktaking 45-55: Austria in the First Decade of the Second Republic], pp. 181-200, Vienna 1996.

In English:

  • "They Were All Victims: The Selective Treatment of the Consequences of National Socialism", in: Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka (ed.), Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity, New Brunswick Austrian Contemporary Studies, Vol. 5), London 1996;
  • "'Revisionism" in Germany and Austria: The Evolution of a Doctrine", in: Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification, ed. Hermann Kurthen, Rainer Erb and Werner Bergmann, New York and Oxford 1997.
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