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Itter Castle
Itter Castle. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Itter Castle (German: Schloss Itter) is a 19th-century castle in Itter, a village in Tyrol, Austria. In 1943, during World War II, it was turned into a Nazi prison for French VIPs. The castle was the site of an extraordinary instance of the U.S. Army, German Wehrmacht, Austrian Resistance, and the prisoners themselves fighting side-by-side against the Waffen-SS in the Battle for Castle Itter in early May 1945 before the end of the war in Europe.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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