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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.
The SS-Totenkopfverbände guards left the castle soon after, and the prisoners took control of the castle and armed themselves with the weapons that remained, [19] however they feared an attack by any roaming parties of SS men still loyal to the Nazi regime.
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 ...
A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that a total of 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during World War II. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] It is estimated that there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of the war and one historian has claimed that sexual violence ...
executed, location of death not known, possibly Gestapo-Prison Berlin-Moabit: Stefan Rowecki: 1895–1944: Polish: General, leader of the Armia Krajowa, journalist Polish resistance movement in World War II: executed, Warsaw: Stefan Starzyński: 1893–1943: Polish: Politician, economist, writer, Mayor of Warsaw 1934–1939 Polish intelligentsia
[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]
Matthäus Hetzenauer (German pronunciation: [maˈtɛːʊs ˈhɛtsənaʊ̯ɐ], 23 December 1924 – 3 October 2004) was an Austrian sniper in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He served in the 3rd Gebirgsjäger Division on the Eastern Front of World War II, and he was with 345 confirmed kills the most successful German sniper ...
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 ...