Selective perception of the Nazi past 1955 – 1985

In the fifties the City Council decided to commission portraits of all three Nazi Mayors for the gallery of mayors – although these were never hung. In 1973 the last Nazi mayor Franz Langoth had a street named after him (though it was renamed in 1986). While 14 war memorials were erected between 1955 and 1985, two for civilian victims and four for refugees, just three memorials for the immediate victims of Nazi rule were built in the same period. However, the City of Linz made a strong statement in the mid sixties by financially supporting the reconstruction of the synagogue that had been destroyed in 1938, in remembrance of the Jewish victims of national socialism. In 1968 Mayor Edmund Aigner became the first person to mention the „Anschluss“ of Austria into the German Reich in a meeting of the City Council