#Castle Itter

[luminouslumity]

One of favorite stories from WWII!

[do-androids-dream-ao3acc]

SABATON - The Last Battle (Official Lyric Video)

5th of May, I almost missed it! Here’s also a tweet from the RealTimeWWII account:

[ottowagner1922]

This is it.

The Waffen SS is closing in. The prisoners have been freed and we have given them firearms to defend themselves too. The time has come. I will keep you updated after the battle. I am no longer Nazi. I am German. - Otto

[dirjoh-blog]

The bizarre Battle for Castle Itter.

The Battle of Castle Itter is a remarkable event from World War II, often referred to as one of the strangest battles of the war. It took place on May 5, 1945, in the final days of the conflict in Europe. Castle Itter, located in Austria, was being used as a prison for high-profile French prisoners, including former prime ministers, generals, and other prominent figures. As the war drew to a…

[phandomtaleweaver]

I made stickers based on Sabaton songs bc history is cool and I’m obsessed with it. I have three rn, but I plan to make more (link at the bottom if you want to buy one)

(The last battle)

(Price of a mile)

(Night witches)

they’re available here:

[the-ghost-of-a-ww1-sturmtruppen]

Random ww2 fact :3

The battle of Castle Itter (Schloss Itter in German) was fought on the 5th of May 1945 in the Austrian village of Itter, five days after the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

The castle, a former prison for high-profile political captives of Nazi Germany, was defended by the former prisoners and the Austrian anti-nazi resistance, together with troops from the U.S. Army and a unit of recent defectors from the German Army.

Attacking the newly liberated castle was a force of SS Panzergrenadiers.

It is often cited as (probably) the only battle in World War 2 where American and German troops fought side by side.

[krinsbez]

Even though I can’t listen to it, I can still post it, in celebration of Castle Itter Day!

[captain-price-unofficially]

A German soldier and a US GI greet one another after fighting off the 16th SS Panzergrenadier division during the Battle of Castle Itter. 1945.

[pattern-recognition]

the battle of castle itter isn’t even an exceptional event anymore, with the state of the paramilitaries and ideological trends across every faction in the Russo-Ukrainian war there are like a dozen different hitlerite groups doing battle against one another at any given moment

[lensman-arms-race]

Sk-Itter-i Toilet

Idle musing: if/when G-Toilet and Scientist Toilet are defeated, will we see a 'Battle of Castle Itter' type episode?

The Battle of Castle Itter took place near the end of WWII, and is one of only 2 battles in that war in which Americans and Germans fought side by side. The American soldiers and deserting German soldiers fought together to liberate French prisoners that were being held in Castle Itter by loyalist Nazis. The soldiers and the freed prisoners then defended the castle against another wave of Nazis before being relieved by more American soldiers. It's often called 'the strangest battle' in WWII.

I'm thinking: the Skibidi Toilets are cult-of-personality based, and once the two leaders are taken out, many of the rest will go 'oh well' and stop bothering to fight the Hardware Alliance. Some of them might end up aiding the Alliance against toilets that are still fiercely loyal to their fallen leaders and determined to carry out their mission.

[blitzkennedyrieg]

Rick. Ricky. Richter scale. I’m insanely bored can you pretty pretty please with a cherry on top give me some of ur fave ww2 facts you know please and ty🙏🙏‼️‼️‼️

EAYEYAAAAAAHHHH all my favourite ww2 facts off the top of my head GO

british spies plotted to spike hitler's food with estrogen to turn him into a woman because they thought it would make him less aggressive

the myth of carrots helping you see in the dark because of british ww2 propaganda. they were using radar technology to intercept german pilots during blackouts and didn't want them to know so covered it up by publicly stating that they were feeding their pilots carrots to give them night vision

benito mussolini had his face on the side of his headquarters like a fucking cartoon supervillain

4. the entire ghost army thing. using inflatable tanks to successfully trick german forces

5. during the norwegian heavy water sabotage, the norwegian commandos briefly halted their mission to stop the nazis from developing nuclear weapons to help the caretaker of the facility they were trying to blow up find his glasses

6. hitler only spoke german. this memoir describes him like an afraid child who lost sight of his mother at a walmart

7. supposedly the reason for hitler's Interesting mustache styling choice was due to his superiors in wwi ordering him to trim it so he could properly wear his gas mask

8. joseph goebbels looks like crocker

9. a bear named wojtek was officially enlisted into the polish army. he learned how to march and salute and drink beer and eat cigarettes

ten. hitler was a vegetarian but made exceptions cause he's a ol' little bitch. one of his favourite foods was liver dumplings

11. people in the bunker were more devastated over the death of hitler's dog than the death of his wife

12. the jericho trumpets (sirens) on the skuta had the ONLY purpose of causing panic

13. hitler was asleep during the invasion of normandy. before his rest he ordered his men to not wake him up under any circumstance and they followed through

14. hitler liked multiple jewish people (eduard bloch and bernile nienau) but only considered them to be "exceptions" cause he's a ol' little bitch

15. hitler had only one ball

16. hitler and a few others played a prank on another nazi officer, ernst "putzi" hanfstaengl, sending him over an area that would mean almost certain death. this caused hanfstaengl to defect, hand himself over to the allies, and give up many, many special documents. hanfstaengl proceeded to work with president roosevelt during the war

17. the one where hitler laid his head on the lap of hanfstengl's wife and made an embarrassing attempt to flirt with her

18. in hanfstaengl's memoir he states that he wasn't fond of hitler's radical beliefs and thought he could "civilise" him. he thought he could fix him i'm criyng

19. the battle of castle itter where americans, french politicians, and nazis banded together to fight against nazis

20. hitler's nephew served in the US navy

[cuproprime]

The Battle of Castle Itter really just feels like the guy who writes the history books decided his job was too boring and did it high one day.

[georgebuckettwo]

There was a battle in WW2 where the Germans fought alongside allied forces against the SS, and freed a famous tennis player. The Battle of Castle Itter.

The Nazis had surrendered at that point, but there were some SS forces that were still fighting, so the Nazis, Americans and Australians teamed up against the SS.

[captmccoy]

The Strange Battle for Castle Itter

The Battle for Castle Itter is one of those overlooked, strange tales of World War II. The Austrian castle had been used by the Germans to hold prisoners of noble descent, fame or high rank. There was a guard force of Wehrmacht soldiers. The place was situated in the hills above the town of Itter (National Interest). Two days before the German unconditional surrender, 100+ of Himmler‘s Waffen SS…

[thecounci1]

Duke Theodore Crowley; 1800 - 1948

1900 - 1918, Theodore avoided the great war, to him it was a family squabble that got way out of hand. And those who didn't need to die ,died. But he understands death its part of life.

The 1919 - 1929, Theodore was basically a party person ,having the time of his life. Enjoying the roaring twenties

1929 - 1939, he went into hiding, and sneaking folks out of Germany

sometime in 1939, he was taken in Berlin, he only remembers entering a bookstore. Then waking up to a stone floor, maybe in a castle, or basement. Inside a circle intended to cage beings like himself. Of course the German party trapped him. And he stayed there until after the war, during The Battle for Castle Itter, when an B.P.I. agent found him. This agent was Agent Frank.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.5 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. 1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation. 1945 – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. 1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively. 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. 1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect. 1961 – Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. 1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. 1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record. 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. 1985 – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech. 1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon. 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. 2023 – The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.