The Austrians had a good run, for many years, as the ''first victim'' of Adolf Hitler, who occupied his native Austria in March 1938. But two historians have now documented the extent to which the Austrians were among the first war profiteers, moving quickly to expropriate the property of Vienna's Jews.

''In the pillaging of their Jewish neighbors, the Viennese played a leading role for the entire Thousand Year Reich,'' write Tina Walzer and Stephan Templ in their acerbic new book about the so-called Aryanization of Jewish property in Vienna, where some 200,000 Jews once lived.

What distinguishes the book is less its history, which was broadly known, than its details: a long section, called ''The Topography of Robbery,'' lists businesses, addresses and former and current owners.

The book provides a bizarre walking guide to one of Europe's great cities. The Bristol and Imperial Hotels, two of Vienna's proudest, were partly owned before the war by a Jew, Samuel Schallinger, who died in 1942 at the Theresienstadt camp near Prague. The Cafe Bräunerhof, known before 1938 as the Sans Souci, was among the many cafes that were Aryanized, as was the famous restaurant Zu Den Drei Husaren.