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Stalag XVIII-A was a World War II German Army (Wehrmacht) prisoner-of-war camp located to the south of the town of Wolfsberg, in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, then a part of Nazi Germany. A sub-camp Stalag XVIII-A/Z was later opened in Spittal an der Drau about 100 km (62 mi) to the west.
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a number of the Polish 108 Martyrs of World War II: Father Jean Bernard (1907–1994), Roman Catholic priest from Luxembourg who was imprisoned from May 1941 to August 1942. He wrote the book Pfarrerblock 25487 about his experiences in Dachau; Blessed Titus Brandsma, Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy, died 26 July 1942
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – US Marine Corps Fighter Ace during WWII, Medal of Honor recipient; Fernand Braudel – historian, was a POW in WWII; Frank Buckles – the last surviving American veteran of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese; Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader. Masterminded the ...
Buchenwald inmates The bullet-ridden body of one SS guard, the other stabbed, who were killed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp soon after the liberation. Buchenwald memorial Buchenwald's crematorium Polish prisoners from Buchenwald awaiting execution in the forest near the camp, April 26, 1942 General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners ...
It was built in 1939/40 to house workers for the armaments factory "Eisenwerke AG Krieglach", part of "Reichswerke AG Hermann Göring", in wooden barracks.[1] [2] [3] The plant operated until May 1945 and the German executives of the plant fled Krieglach to the west on May 7/8 1945, trying to cover their tracks in the last days of the Second World War by destroying all archives of the plant.
Heinrich Himmler visiting Mauthausen in June 1941. Himmler is talking to Franz Ziereis, camp commandant, with Karl Wolff on the left and August Eigruber on the right.. On 9 August 1938, prisoners from Dachau concentration camp near Munich were sent to the town of Mauthausen in Austria, to begin building a new slave labour camp. [6]