Following the advent of the National Socialist regime in the year 1938, more than 2,700 mostly Jewish affiliates of the University of Vienna were dismissed and subsequently driven away and/or murdered - lecturers, students and administration employees. Furthermore, over 200 people were stripped of their academic titles. In 2008, 70 years after the so-called "Anschluss" [annexation] and the pogroms of what came to be cynically called the Kristallnacht [Crystal Night], the University of ...