Itter Castle
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Itter Castle 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
Itter Castle, view from south, August 2025
Entrance, July 1979
Itter Castle seen from the southeast, 1979
Güssing Burg
Maxime Weygand
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Maxime Weygand was a French military commander in World War I and World War II, as well as a high-ranking member of the Vichy regime.
Itter Castle
…camp. Notable prisoners included former Prime Ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud; Generals Maurice Gamelin and former commander-in-chief Maxime Weygand, who had been prominent during the Phoney War; former tennis champion Jean Borotra, later General Commissioner of Sports in the Vichy regime; right-wing…
General Weygand c. 1940
Alfred van der Smissen (1823–1895), Weygand's purported biological father
Weygand on Time magazine in 1933
Weygand as a junior officer in the early 1890s