1959 Argentina/Uruguay

Many Austrians had been driven out of their country by the terrors of the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg dictatorship of the 1930s, and even more fled under the Nazi regime. There are no exact figures, but estimates suggest that around 150,000 people emigrated. Often passing through Western Europe, they fled to the Soviet Union, North and South America, Asia and Africa. One particularly large exile community settled around the Río de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. The return home turned out to be as difficult as the exile: after 1945, Austria made little attempt to repatriate those who had been driven away. In 1959, less than ten per cent of them had come back.