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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.
Austrian military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 65 P) W. Austrian Waffen-SS personnel (1 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Austrian military personnel of World War II"
Category: Austrian casualties of World War II. ... Austrian civilians killed in World War II (41 P) M. Austrian military personnel killed in World War II (1 C, 65 P)
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.
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 ...
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 ...
He had helped these prisoners escape by moving them to Bavaria and then to Austria where he met with them twice before they were returned to American forces. Berger claimed that he had saved the Prominente from Gestapo head Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who had sent agents to kill them. [citation needed] Berger was released from prison in 1951 and died ...
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 ...