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In all, 233 people managed to escape, of whom 118 ultimately survived. The remainder were either killed during the escape or were recaptured soon afterwards. The attack was unusual as an attempt by the resistance to free Jewish deportees and marks the only mass breakout by deportees on a Holocaust train.
Matuska made at least two failed attempts to derail trains in Austria in December 1930 and January 1931. [1] Matuska's first successful crime was the derailment of the Berlin-Basel express train south of Berlin on 8 August 1931. More than 100 people were injured, several of them seriously, but there were no deaths.
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.
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.
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"
Educated "political" prisoners were placed in administrative tasks, while criminal prisoners also had desirable positions in the prison's self-government. [6]: 19, 22 The death rate for Italian prisoners in Ebensee was 53%; after Mussolini's fall in 1943, Italians were marked as traitors. Jewish prisoners had a death rate of almost 40%.
The term "the first victim of Germany", as applied to Austria, first appeared in English-speaking journalism in 1938, before the beginning of the Anschluss. [30] Shortly before the outbreak of the war in 1939, the writer Paul Gallico - himself of partly Austrian origin - published the novel The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, part of which is set in post-Anschluss Austria and depicts an Austrian ...
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.