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Ministry of Defence Norbert Darabos in the crypt of the "Heroes’ Monument” in the Outer Castle Gate on Vienna’s Heldenplatz, photo documentation

Federal Minister Norbert Darabos symbolically deleted the name of the Nazi mass murderer Joseph Vallaster from the Book of Honour in 2012.

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    ‘Laurels for the Soldiers Who are Worthy of Laurels’ – the Outer Burgtor Becomes a Monument to Heroes

    Erected in 1660, the Burgtor was originally one of the gates in the fortifications surrounding the city of Vienna and was the site of fierce fighting during the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683. After the gate was blown up by Napoleon’s soldiers in 1809 it took fifteen years for the military to rebuild it. The foundation stone was laid in the presence of Emperor Franz I in 1821. The opening ceremony took place on 16 October 1824, the eleventh anniversary of the battle of Leipzig, the so-called ‘Battle of the Peoples’, at which the joint forces of Austria, Prussia, Russia and Sweden defeated Napoleon in a ‘heroic fight’.