The transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol refers to a transfer of 139 high-profile prisoners (Prominenten) of the Nazi regime in the final weeks of the Second World War in Europe from Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria to South Tyrol.
Hotel Pragser Wildsee
Niederdorf, South Tyrol, the scene of the denouement between the SS and the Wehrmacht on Monday 30 April 1945
Colonel Bogislaw von Bonin (center) with fellow hostage Sigismund Payne Best (dark suit, right) shortly after liberation on 5 May 1945
Hostages at the Pragser Wildsee Hotel following their rescue by US Forces.
Wichard von Alvensleben
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Wichard von Alvensleben was a German agriculturist, Wehrmacht Officer, and Knight of the Order of Saint John. He was a member of the aristocratic House of Alvensleben, one of the oldest in Germany.
