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 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.
Itter Castle, view from south, February 2010
Entrance, July 1979
Itter Castle seen from the southeast, 1979
The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II.
Itter Castle in 1979
The main entrance to the castle (1979)
French tennis star Jean Borotra in 1932
Major Josef Gangl