ABSTRACT
On May 15,1946, the Austrian Parliament, freely elected in November 1945 and consisting to an overwhelming degree of personalities who had been themselves inmates of the NS concentrations camps, passed the “Nichtigkeitsgesetz” which followed the spirit of the Inter-allied declaration against Acts of Dispossession committed in Territories under Enemy Occupation or Control. In the following years the Austrian Parliament passed seven Restitution Laws, and the Allied Forces, who were in those years scrutinizing Austrian laws, must have seen them as “suitable remedies” otherwise they would have interfered. Austria was liberated but occupied until the State Treaty of 1955. Her people suffered from hunger, destroyed flats and houses, insufficient medical care and a lack of almost everything in everyday life. Before the war and during the NS regime, Austria was not an industrialized country; the agriculture in the form of small farms was the dominant feature.
