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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 ...
Josef "Sepp" Gangl (September 12, 1910 – May 5, 1945) was a German major of the Wehrmacht who became a member of the Austrian Resistance very late in the Second World War. He was killed in action on May 5, 1945, at Itter Castle , Tyrol .
Heinrich Maier DDr. (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈmaɪɐ] ⓘ; 16 February 1908 – 22 March 1945) [1] was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, pedagogue, philosopher and a member of the Austrian resistance, [1] [2] who was executed as the last victim of Hitler's regime in Vienna.
Before the main assault began, Gangl was able to phone Alois Mayr, the Austrian resistance leader in Wörgl, and ask for reinforcements. Only two more German soldiers under his command and a teenage Austrian resistance member, Hans Waltl, could be spared, and they quickly drove to the castle. [29] In the morning of 5 May, the attack began.
Winter in Wartime, 2008 adaptation of Jan Terlouw's 1972 novel, about a Dutch youth whose favors for members of the Dutch Resistance during the last winter of World War II have a devastating impact on his family; The Resistance Banker Bankier van het verzet (film), is a 2018 Dutch World-War-II-period drama film directed by Joram Lürsen. The ...
Karl Fischer (1918–1963) was an Austrian resistance fighter against the Austro-fascist state between 1934—1938 and the Nazi state as of 1938. Fischer was a Trotzkyan communist, whose anti-Stalin leanings led in 1947 to his long-term, illegal imprisonment in Soviet gulags. [1]
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II.Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her ...
Other Austrians participated in the Nazi administration, from Nazi death camp personnel to senior Nazi leadership; the majority of the bureaucrats who implemented the Final Solution were Austrian. [2] [3] After World War II, many Austrians sought comfort in the myth of Austria as being the first victim of the Nazis. [4]