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In May 1944, about 15% of prisoners were officially ill, but in May 1945, just before liberation, almost half of the prisoners were officially ill. [6]: 27–28 Prisoner doctors and fellow Spanish prisoners working in medical supply depots smuggled additional food into the camp. From 1943 to 1944, many dangerously ill prisoners were transported ...
The camp was officially opened on 25 May 1940, when the first prisoners and guards moved in. [16] [13] [8] The camp was directly adjacent to the road between Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and nearby Langenstein; [17] [10] former prisoners recalled Austrian children passing by on the way to school. Until the camp wall was completed, passerby had a ...
Austrian Waffen-SS personnel killed in action (5 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel killed in World War II" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total.
There is an Austrian website with a short biography with a photo of Gangl. “War is Weird: Americans and Nazis Fought as Allies for this Single World War II Battle” by Sebastien Roblin. The National Interest, January 29, 2020. “The Insane Story of a German-American Effort to Rescue French Prisoners During World War II” by Sebastien Roblin.
Austrian military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 65 P) W. Austrian Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel of World War II"
Italian soldiers taken prisoner by the Allies during Operation Compass (1941). Most prisoners, after being captured, spent the war in the prisoner of war camps.In the early phases of the war, following German occupation of much of Europe, Germany also found itself unprepared for the number of POWs it held.
The transformation of the castle into a prison was completed by 25 April 1943, and the facility was placed under the administration of the Dachau concentration camp. [3] The prison was established to contain high-profile French prisoners valuable to the Reich.
From the start of 1934 there was a new wave of Nazi terrorist attacks in Austria. This time government institutions were targeted far more than individuals. In the first half of 1934, 17 people were killed and 171 injured. On 25 July the Nazis attempted a coup under the leadership of the Austrian SS. About 150 SS personnel forced their way into ...