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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 ...
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.
On 5 May 1945, prisoners awoke to find that the SS had deserted Ebensee and that only elderly Germans armed with rifles were guarding the camp. [7] Prisoners killed 52 camp functionaries who had collaborated with the SS to create the camp's hierarchy. [6]: 41 American troops of the 80th Infantry Division arrived at the camp on 6 May 1945 ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Austrian military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 65 P) Pages in category "Austrian casualties of World War II" This category contains only the following page.
These included the main contacts with the American MIS, Semperit Director General Franz Josef Messner (1896-1945, killed in the gas chambers at the Mauthausen concentration camp), and Chaplain Dr. Heinrich Maier (1908-1945) executed on 22 March 1945 as the last victim of the Nazi régime in Vienna. [31]
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.
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.