Memorial Carl Szokoll

The Federal Ministry of Defense named on 25 August 2005 an inner courtyard of its office building, the Roßauer Barracks in the district of Alsergrund, after the resistance fighter and film producer Carl Szokoll. At the same time, a memorial plaque and the „Conscience Sculpture“ by the sculptor Richard Agreiter were unveiled, which also commemorate Szokoll's resistance against National Socialism. In addition to Defense Minister Günther Platter, National Council President Andreas Khol also participated in the ceremony for the unveiling of the memorial stone. In his speech, he stated: „We are proud of our federal army and of the fact that this central courtyard of the ministry is named after a man of resistance against National Socialism.“ In response to criticism that despite the recognition of Carl Szokoll, there was no engagement with the history of the Roßauer Barracks, the Ministry of Defense in 2011 published an expanded new edition of a building history of the Roßauer Barracks. For the first time, it also mentioned the persecution of disobedient Wehrmacht soldiers by NS military justice within the building.