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This chapter deals with the political, economic, and social history of Dornbirn during the First World War. It also deals with the same issues during the interwar period. The chapter picks up the political, economic, and social developments in Dornbirn during World War II. In Austria, the 1970s saw history becoming a discipline of the social sciences. The 1980s saw history becoming part of a local research movement. In the course of World War I, the local textile factory owners successfully re-arranged their products as well as their markets. With the decline of the Habsburg Empire in the autumn of 1918, Dornbirn’s industry lost the main market for its products which has been the eastern half of the old empire. Dornbirn capitalists, especially the textile crowd, had been on good terms with the new Nazi elite, for they traditionally were linked to the German nationalist stratum of the population.