Product Description: Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, anti-semitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. Through the analysis of an impressive variety of documents, Reisigl and Wodak present detailed case studies of anti-semitism, institutional racism and political xenophobia in Austria...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by providing a history of Austrian anti-Semitism and Jewish responses to it from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular focus on the period from 1914 to 1938...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that, although antisemitism exists in many cultures, it is the unique character of racism inherent in German culture that allowed for the extreme persecution of Jews culminating in the Holocaust

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