<img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.d07033ba84814c629054b727bdc28d08.austria_expelled_by_nazis_ls504.jpg?x=130&y=66&q=85&sig=ejHf9SsiHCIUDrfZVOt6zA–” align=”left” height=”66″ width=”130″ alt=”This June 26, 2009 picture taken in the festival room of the University of Vienna, in Austria, shows a memorial book which contains the names of expelled lecturers and <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>students at the university during the Nazi era. An online database was launched this week containing the names of <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>students and <a href=”http://www.mynextcollege.com”>teachers — many of them Jewish — who were forced to leave the University of Vienna after Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in March 1938. The database also contains the names of people who were stripped of their academic titles — including famous author Stefan Zweig, whom the Nazis in 1941 deemed ‘unworthy’ of the philosophy degree he earned in 1904. (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)” border=”0″ />AP - Kurt Elias vividly remembers the day in 1938 when the Nazis barred him from entering the University of Vienna because he was Jewish.

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