The transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol refers to a transfer of 139 high-profile prisoners of the Nazi regime in the final weeks of the Second World War in Europe from Dachau concentratio
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 the arrival of the Americans on 5 May 1945; “It was a liberation for everyone, and I believe that no one realized that for many this was to be the threshold of a new and painfully long imprisonment.” — Sigismund Payne Best
By the Wehrmacht on 30 April 1945 liberated "special prisoners" at the Pragser Wildsee Hotel, as of 4 May 1945 under American jurisdiction.
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.
Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol
…the prisoners to attack the SS and SD troopers who were becoming increasingly threatening. Tasked with the rescue of the Prominenten, Wehrmacht Captain Wichard von Alvensleben made a reconnaissance trip to Niederdorf later that evening. Almost immediately he bumped into Obersturmführer Stiller. Von Alvensleben, realising that…
von Alvensleben in 1960