The town obtained statutory city status during the interwar period on 1 January 1932 . After the Austrian '' Anschluss '' to Nazi Germany in 1938 , the mayor of Villach was Oskar Kraus , an enthusiastic Nazi . On 9 November 1938 Villach was a site of the nationwide '' Kristallnacht '' pogroms with violent attacks on the Jewish population . A memorial for the 1919 border conflict that led to the Carinthian Plebiscite caused controversy when it was inaugurated in 2002 , as Kraus , who had not been especially prominent in the conflict , was the only person named
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