Join us on March 4, 2022 at 2 pm PT for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Prof. Walter Sauer of the University of Vienna.
View the recording of this talk here:
Title: “African Presence in KZ Mauthausen in the Context of Racist Repression during National Socialism”
Abstract: Prof. Sauer will talk about his study conducted on inmates of African descent in the Nazi-led Mauthausen concentration camp, who have been largely excluded from scientific research of Austria’s past. How many Africans became victims of National Socialism has hardly been studied until now. Who were the Africans imprisoned in Mauthausen? How many were they? Which countries were they from and why were they in the concentration camp? Did they survive and if so, are there any contemporary witnesses? This research forms part of a broader study on the repressive situation persons of African descent found themselves in during the seven years Austria was part of the German Reich.
Bio: Walter Sauer is a professor at the Institute of Economic and Social History of the Vienna University. He was the last chairman of the Austrian Anti-Apartheid Movement. In 1993 he co-founded (together with Elfriede Pekny) the Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC). Prof. Sauer has published extensively on Austrian colonialism in Africa, on migration and the development of Southern Africa. His last book is “Expeditionen ins afrikanische Österreich.” (english: Expeditions into the African Austria: A Caleidoscopical Travel, 2014).
