Vienna's Monument Against War and Fascism stands in Albertinaplatz on ground that carries its own grim history. Beneath the square lie the remains of people who sheltered in the cellar of the Philipphof apartment building when Allied bombs brought it down on them in 1945.
Alfred Hrdlicka's four-part granite ensemble, unveiled in 1988, is deliberately uncomfortable. Its most discussed figure is a hunched man scrubbing the pavement, a reference to the public humiliation of Vienna's Jewish community after the Anschluss in 1938. When the monument was unveiled it caused uproar; it was always meant to.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use this site to trace Vienna's active role in the Nazi period, connecting the monument's imagery to the events, perpetrators and victims the city long preferred not to discuss.
Tours featuring the Monument Against War and Fascism (4)