Monument Against War and Fascism

Directly in front of the memorial there is a likeness of the gates of a concentration camp, replete with a montage of wartime imagery.  There are chilling likenesses of clubs and gas masks, victims of unconscionable medical experimentation, a dying woman giving birth to a future soldier, and chained slaves sitting on a pedestal of granite, retrieved from the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Behind this you will find a figure of a Jewish male hunched over, being forced to scrub anti-Nazi slogans off the street with a brush. 

The next sculpture depicts Orpheus entering the underworld. The symbolism is meant to remind humanity of the victims of Nazism and radical governmental behavior. Austrians will forever be reminded that of Austria's 200,000 Jews, over 65,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps.

Just after Orpheus you can read etched into stone Austria's second republic's 1945 declaration of human rights, a permanent testimony to the inherent rights of mankind. The location is by no means random. Everyone feels the impact upon realizing the monument stands upon the spot where several hundred people were buried alive when the cellar where they were hiding was demolished in a WWII bombing attack.