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The Federal Monuments Office is a department of the Federal Chancellery responsible for cultural heritage in Austria.
Bundesdenkmalamt plaque on a building in Salzburg indicating "Cultural property" in four languages: German: Kulturdenkmal, English: Cultural Property, French: Bien culturel, and Russian: 'Культурное Достояние.
Early medieval oven, uncovered during excavations in Gaweinstal by the Bundesdenkmalamt.
Poster for the Tag des Denkmals, the Austrian version of the European Heritage Days, sponsored by the Bundesdenkmalamt.
Austria within Nazi Germany
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In an event known as the Anschluss, Austria ceased to be an independent country and was incorporated into Nazi Germany from 13 March 1938 until 27 April 1945, when Allied-occupied Austria declared its
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…restoration workshop in the Mauerbach Charterhouse. The BDA is also responsible for restitution of some 8,000 objects and works of looted art which Austria in the time of National Socialism had acquired by devious means. Since often the original owners and all of their relatives had been killed during the Holocaust, restitution took place…
Soldiers of the Austrian Federal Army in Vienna in February 1934
Austrian troops taking position in February 1934
Adolf Hitler announcing the Anschluss on 15 March 1938
Thousands of Austrians gathering to hear Hitler's proclamation of the Anschluss