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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.
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, [1] where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners. [2]
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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.
Stangl was born in 1908 in Altmünster, located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. He was the son of a night watchman and had such an emotionally distressing relationship with his father that he was deeply frightened by and hated the sight of the elder Stangl's Habsburg Dragoons uniform. [5]
Aribert Ferdinand Heim (28 June 1914 – 10 August 1992), [1] also known as Dr. Death and Butcher of Mauthausen, was an Austrian Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. During World War II, he served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, killing and torturing inmates using various methods, such as the direct injection of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims.
Austrian Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel of World War II" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
After being released under a general amnesty in July 1936, Taus moved to Germany and assisted in administering the Party's relief organization for Austrian SS refugees. [4] On 18 November 1934, with the SS now banned in Austria, Taus was named commander of SS-Abschnitt (District) VIII of the underground Austrian SS units based in Linz.