Austrians in the United Kingdom include citizens or non-citizen immigrants of the United Kingdom whose origins lie in the Central European, German speaking nation of Austria.
Austrians have existed in what is now the UK for centuries, but it was only during the 1930s when Austrians came to the UK in their thousands. The vast majority of these were Austrian Jews who fled to the UK to escape the Nazi leadership during the period of the Third Reich ...
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