Memorial to the Victims of Fascism

The memorial "Den Opfern des Faschismus" was erected on 2 November 1949 on the factory premises of the Siemens Machine Factory in the 21st district. In doing so, an air-raid shelter from the period of Nazi rule was converted into a "memorial site for the martyrs of the Siemens works." The memorial lists the names and dates of death of eighteen employees who were executed by the Nazi judiciary. At an unknown time (after 1998, probably during the renovation or new construction of the company headquarters), the structural base and location of the memorial were changed: the original air-raid shelter was removed, and the inscription was instead placed on a new concrete wall, while the ensemble of the memorial was preserved. The founder of the original memorial was the works council of the Siemens Machine Factory and the Vienna Cable and Metal Works.