Lendorf Barrack - SS-Junker School and Concentration Camp
The buildings of the former Lendorf Barracks which are used by the Austrian Armed Forces under the name of Khevenhüllerkaserne (Khevenhüller Barracks) today, used to be SS barracks along with a "junker school" (one of four elite schools for SS officer cadets in the then "German Reich") and a concentration cam forming part of the Mauthausen complex. The 80 to 130 inmates had to do forced labour in the streets of Klagenfurt/Celovec many a time - nevertheless the concentration camp was "forgotten" after 1945. Only since 2007 (!) a memorial plaque at the entrance of the barracks reminds of the building's national-socialist past. It also took until 2007 for the national-socialist fresco in the barracks' dining room to be "mitigated". A glass slab with the writing "This picture mirrors the national-socialist regime. Its defeat
brought Austria peace. To protect this peace is the responsibility of the Austrian Armed Forces" was placed above the picture, which shows a soldier in the uniform of the Waffen-SS. The removal of the fresco was not deemed possible on the part of the Austrian Armed Forces due to regulations regarding protection of historic sites and monuments. At least this opportunity was used to remove some of the Nazi devotional objects displayed in the barracks' cabinets.Former volunteer SS soldiers from half of Europe, who were accommodated at the Lendorfkaserne, have been remembering their garrison town "in gratitude" a lot longer at the Ulrichsberg celebrations.