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About Tilly Spiegel
- Ottilie "Tilly" Spiegel (10 December 1906 - 1988) was an Austrian political activist, first as a member of the Communist Party and then as part of the wartime resistance.
- After her actions had earned her a term of imprisonment during the Austrofascist period she fled the country, ending up as in Paris as a member of the French Resistance.
- Her parents were murdered by the Nazis but five siblings managed to emigrate to England or to the United States of America.
- In 1945 the merger combining Germany and Austria was reversed at the insistence of the occupying powers whose military victory had put an end to the Hitler regime.
- Tilly Spiegel returned to Vienna (where she had spent her student years) and was one of the first researchers to study the histories of victims of National Socialism.
- Books that she published were frequently consulted and quoted by subsequent researchers.
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