It was an "experience which probably changed my life", says "Nazi hunter" Simon Wiesenthal: "Two or three months after we established our own office in Linz [in 1947], three rabbis visited me one day and told me they had information that in a castle in Carinthia, in the vicinity of Villach, there was a big Jewish library full of all kinds of books.

On the 18 of June 2002 a memorial plaque was unveiled in Lange Gasse 21 in Vienna's 8th district. It is in honour of Hugo Bettauer, a Jewish writer and journalist born in 1872 and author of the prophetic 1922 novel "The City Without Jews". He was gunned down in his office in 1925 by a young Nazi sympathizer and died several days later.

"Das Land des Lächelns" - "The Land of Smiles" - by Franz Lehár is still one of the most popular operettas on the stage today and one of the Hungarian-born composer's most famous works. While Lehár has gone down in music history as one of the leading exponents of the Golden Age of the Viennese operetta, Fritz Löhner-Beda, the man who co-authored the libretto for "The Land of Smiles" and countless other operetta hits, has, by and large been forgotten.