ABSTRACT
A decisive change and thus an important break was brought about by the “illegal period” in Austria and the seizure of power by the National Socialists in Germany. Between 1933 and 1938, the centralization of the Austrian agenda was carried out in the German Hitler Jugend. This rich and impressive work by Johanna Gehmacher fills a significant gap in research and constitutes an additional building block in the body of scholarship dealing with the “Austrian Nazi movement.” This confrontation with the Austrian State of the Second Republic, including the political policies and institutions which constitute the framework in which this body of criminal law was produced, means the confrontation with a “male state.” In Austria immediately following the end of the Third Reich the legal regulations governing the termination of pregnancy which had been on the books up to 1934 were again put in force.
