non-nationals were replaced by German legislation. In the following three years some 128,000 Jews were forced to leave Austria, while up to 1945 at least 64,500 Austrian Jews were murdered. Post-war Austria has not been kind to immigrants. The nation does not want to feature as a country of immigration. Xenophobia has been stirred up by political parties which look for scapegoats in times of economic recession. Numerous restrictive laws have been drawn up to limit immigration. This is the most painful of all political paradoxes: Vienna, a multi-cultural capital with a tradition of cosmopolitanism also produced some of the most bigoted nationalists any political system has turned out so far, reducing the once great city to a state of cheerful mediocrity in which a gala-concert represents culture and creativity is a chocolate ball in Mozart-wrapper.
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