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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
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 ...
List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom; List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
Heinrich Harrer – Austrian mountaineer, sportsman and author, detained in British India during WWII until he escaped in 1944, described in his Seven Years in Tibet; Erich Hartmann – "The Blond Knight of Germany", number one air ace of all air forces in WWII; Jack Hawkins (U.S. Marine Corps officer)
Pages in category "Austrian prisoners of war" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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.
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]