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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
[21] [16] As few as 5,816 [16] Jews, including 2,142 [21] camp prisoners, survived until the end of the war in Austria. The total number of deaths caused by Hitler's repressions in Austria is estimated to be 120,000. [24] During the two years (1940–1941) of Aktion T4, 18,269 people deemed mentally ill were murdered in Hartheim Castle alone. [25]
The Austrian resistance was launched in response to the rise of the fascists across Europe and, more specifically, to the Anschluss in 1938 and resulting occupation of Austria by Germany. An estimated 100,000 people [ 1 ] were reported to have participated in this resistance with thousands subsequently imprisoned or executed for their anti ...
The SS killed large numbers of prisoners by starvation before the marches and shot many more dead both during and after for not being able to keep pace. Seven hundred prisoners were killed during one ten-day march of 7,000 Jews, including 6,000 women, who were being moved from camps in the Danzig region.