27.1.
Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
2.2.
Manhunt for 500 prisoners who escaped from Mauthausen
29.3.
Soviet troops cross the borders of present-day Austria
29.3.
First death marches of Hungarian-Jewish forced labourers
13.4.
Battle for Vienna is over
23.4.
First issue of the daily “Neues Österreich” is published in Vienna. In Innsbruck, resistance fighter Robert Moser is tortured to death by the Gestapo
27.4.
Declaration of Independence and Founding of the Second Republic
28.4.
American troops enter Tyrol and Upper Austria
29.4.
The provisional government enters the Parliament in Vienna, murder of resistance fighters in the gas chambers of Mauthausen
30.4.
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
1.5.
Last Allied air raid on Austria; 20 people die in Salzburg
2.5.
French troops liberate Bregenz
3.5.
Innsbruck is liberated by local resistance fighters
4.5.
American troops liberate Salzburg
5.5.
Linz and Mauthausen are liberated by American troops. 13 resistance fighters are murdered in Hartheim
6.5.
British troops enter Carinthia
8.5.
Liberation of Lienz. Unconditional surrender of the German Reich: the war is over
9.5.
In Styria two people raising an Austrian flag are shot by returning SS soldiers
10.5.
SA- and Volkssturm soldiers shoot dead nine Jewish men and women in Übelbach, Styria
34.5.
The Salzburg state government issues a “welcome note” to Soviet-backed Chancellor Renner, against the will of the US administration
8.9.
Manifesto issued by six German- and Italian-speaking parties of South Tyrol, calling for mutual respect and cooperation
11.9.
Founding of the Allied Council
24.9.
Start of the federal states conference in Vienna; the government is extended
11.10.
End of the federal states conference. The government led by Renner is accepted by all federal states
20.10.
The Austrian government is accepted by France, Britain and America
25.11.
First elections of the Second Republic
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