%0 Journal Article
%T Rebuilding an Austrian Army: The Bundesheer¡¯s Founding Generation and the Wehrmacht Past, 1955¨C1970
%A Bastian Matteo Scianna
%J War in History
%@ 1477-0385
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0968344516682057
%X After the Second World War, a new Austrian Army (the Bundesheer) was formed to guarantee the country¡¯s armed neutrality. But the period between 1938 and 1945 remained a point of contention. While some Austrian officers had been sidelined, the majority had served in the Wehrmacht and thus shared experiences and soldierly values. As Cold War realities necessitated a professional experienced army, a group around Erwin Fussenegger (1908¨C1986) dominated the new Bundesheer and contemplations about reforming the military culture and value system were postponed; while at the same time, the Bundesheer managed to prevent becoming a mere continuation of the Wehrmacht
%K Austria
%K Wehrmacht
%K Second World War
%K Cold War
%K military culture
%K Bundesheer
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0968344516682057