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My Viennese whirl
SIR: Harry Mount’s article about the filming of The Third Man (June issue) reminds me vividly of the three years I spent in Vienna (1951-54), teaching English in a private school that was re-establishing itself after having been closed down by the Nazi authorities.
The city was still in four zones: American, British, French and Russian, There were two schools, one in Grinzing (American) and the other in the south (Russian) zone. I travelled daily on trams between the two zones and so could see where the fiercest fighting had been when the Russian troops, who were the first into
