ABSTRACT
In 1985, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen, the University of Vienna began issuing questionnaires to survivors who attended any of the remembrance ceremonies held throughout Austria. The question could be asked, 'Why did the University wait 40 years to begin?' The bigger question, though it finds a facile answer, is why the Western world went to sleep after Nuremberg on the question of Nazi crimes.
