Carl szokoll autobiography featuring
Article in the guardian 2004...
Szokoll, Carl, born 15-10-1915, in Vienna, Wien Stadt, Vienna (Wien), Austria the son of a private soldier in the Austrian army who had fought in World War I, and had served a long time as a Russian prisoner of war.
carl grew up in poor conditions in Vienna, but because he received good grades in primary and secondary school, he was later accepted as an officer candidate in the Austrian army in 1934.
Carl szokoll autobiography featuring
In his years as a cadet, he met his wife, Christine Karla “Christl” Kukula, daughter of a Jewish industrialist from Vienna. After the Anschluss in 1938, he had to end his relationship with Kukula due to the Nuremberg Laws which forbade romantic engagement with the Jews.
Despite this, he secretly kept in touch with her for the next few years, marrying her after the war in 1946. Together they had a son.
Due to his relationship with a half-Jewish woman (Halbjüdin as the Nuremberg Laws, ordered by Hermann Göring, called it), he was transferred to an elite armored unit of the