On March 15th, 1938, the crowds gathered on the square to see a small mustachioed man emerge onto the Neue Burg balcony and loudly proclaim that his homeland was now part of the German Reich.
The man’s name? Adolf Hitler.

The Statue is Eugene of Savoy born Oct. 18, 1663, Paris, France—died April 24, 1736, Vienna, Austria.
He was a field marshal and statesman of the Carignan line of the House of Savoy, who, in the service of the Austrian Holy Roman emperor, made his name as one of the greatest soldiers of his generation.
He fought notably against the Turks in central Europe and the Balkans (1683–88, 1697, 1715–18) and against France in the War of the Grand Alliance (1689–97) and in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14).
He was the teacher of Frederick the Great and the only one among the seven great strategists of all time whose campaigns Napoleon considered worthy of study by posterity.