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Apr 1, 2022 · Carl Szokoll was the adjoint of Robert Bernardis. In his years as a cadet, he met his wife Christl Kukula, the daughter of a Jewish Vienniese industrialist. After the Anschluss in 1938, he had to end his relationship with Kukula because of the Nuremberg laws that forbade romantic involvement with Jews.
Szokoll was born in Vienna, the son of a low-ranking soldier in the Austrian army who had fought in the First World War and had been a long-term Russian prisoner of war.He grew up under poor circumstances in Vienna, but because he received excellent grades in primary and secondary school he was later admitted as an officer candidate in the Austrian army in 1934.
Feb 22, 2009 · Less than two weeks after the coup failed, Szokoll was promoted to his final rank of major. Szokoll was born in Vienna, the son of a corporal in the Austro-Hungarian imperial army, also called Carl, who spent a period as a prisoner of war in Siberia and stayed in the service after the first world war.
Sep 4, 2004 · The Austrian film producer and screenwriter Carl Szokoll, who has died aged 88, had a charmed life
- Early Life
- Involvement in The 20 July Plot
- Szokoll "Saviour of Vienna"
- Post-War Career
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Szokoll was born in Vienna, the son of a low-ranking soldier in the Austrian army who had fought in the First World War and had been a long-term Russian prisoner of war. He grew up under poor circumstances in Vienna, but because he received excellent grades in primary and secondary school he was later admitted as an officer candidate in the Austria...
In 1943, then-captain Szokoll was introduced in Berlin to Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, one of the heads of the resistance movement in the Third Reich, by the Austrian Lieutenant - Colonel Robert Bernardis and got involved with them by monthly visits of Robert Bernardis in Vienna since February 1944. When the 20 July plot seemed to have succeeded...
Being promoted major later in 1944, he tried to take all measures within his power to save Vienna from following the fate of so many other European cities before that had been destroyed in heavy fighting. In the first months of 1945, he got involved with the Austrian resistance movement and started to create a network of officers in order to contac...
Honoured by the reinstated Austrian government for his merits on freeing Austria from the Nazis, he started a career as author and film producer. Among his work is the script for the film Der Bockerer, the production of Die letzte Brücke (the film that made Maria Schellfamous), and his own autobiography that became a bestseller. He died in Vienna i...
Der Bockerer II : Österreich ist frei. Verlag der Apfel, Wien 1997 ISBN 3-85450-128-5Der gebrochene Eid. Europa-Verlag, Wien 1985 ISBN 3-203-50929-6Die Rettung Wiens 1945. Mein Leben, mein Anteil an der Verschwörung gegen Hitler und an der Befreiung Österreichs. Amalthea-Verlag, Wien 2001 ISBN 3-85002-472-5Ludwig Jedlicka: Der zwanzigste Juli in Wien, Herold, Wien 1964Szokoll escaped the SS, but on April 8, 1945 (six days before the fall of Vienna) Karl Biedermann, Alfred Huth, and Rudolf Raschke were hanged in in Floridsdorf (Vienna’s 21st district). SOURCE I would not want to talk about resistance in Austria without referring to one of the most impressive examples of Jewish resistance in Vienna and, later on, in the ghetto of Theresienstadt.
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His girlfriend Christl Kukula was the daughter of a Jewish industrialist. He had met het in 1936, but in 1938 he was forced to end the relationship to save his army career. They secretly stayed in contact with each other, married in 1946 and had a son in the same year.
