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Battle for Castle Itter - Wikipedia. The Battle for Castle Itter in the Austrian. North Tyrol village of Itter was fought on May 5, 1. European Theater of World War II. Troops of the 2. 3rd Tank Battalion of the 1.

Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers lead by Major Josef Gangl, a Waffen- SS officer who defected, and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against an attacking force from the 1. SS Panzergrenadier Division until relief from the American 1. Infantry Regiment of the 3. Division of XXI Corps arrived. The French prisoners included former prime ministers, generals and a tennis star. It may have been the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought side- by- side.

Popular accounts of the battle have called it the strangest battle of World War II. Background[edit]Itter Castle (German: Schloss Itter) is a small castle situated on a hill near the village of Itter in Austria. After the 1. 93. 8 Anschluss (the German annexation of Austria), the German government officially leased the castle in late 1. Franz Grüner. The castle was seized from Grüner by SS Lieutenant General Oswald Pohl under the orders of Heinrich Himmler on 7 February 1. The transformation of the castle into a prison camp was completed by 2. April 1. 94. 3, and the facility was placed under the administration of the Dachau concentration camp. The prison was established to contain high- profile French prisoners valuable to the Reich.[6] Notable prisoners included tennis player Jean Borotra, former prime ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former commanders- in- chief Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin,Charles de Gaulle's elder sister Marie- Agnès Cailliau, right- wing leader and closet French resistance member François de La Rocque, and trade union leader Léon Jouhaux.

Besides the VIP prisoners, the castle held a number of Eastern European prisoners detached from Dachau, who were used for maintenance and other menial work.[1. The main entrance to the castle (1. French tennis star Jean Borotra in 1. Borotra escaped three times, the last after volunteering to summon help in the midst of the battle.

On 3 May 1. 94. 5, Zvonimir Čučković, an imprisoned Yugoslav communist resistance member from Croatia who worked as a handyman at the prison, left the castle on the pretense of performing an errand for the prison's commander Sebastian Wimmer (de). English seeking Allied assistance he was to give to the first American he encountered. The Dog Who Saved Christmas Full Movie more. The town of Wörgl lay 8 kilometres (5 miles) down the mountains but was still occupied by German troops. Inn River valley towards Innsbruck 6. Late that evening, he reached the outskirts of the city and encountered an advance party of the 4.

Infantry Regiment of the American 1. Infantry Division of the US VI Corps and informed them of the castle's prisoners. They were unable to authorize a rescue on their own but promised Čučković an answer from their headquarters unit by morning of 4 May. At dawn, a heavily armored rescue was mounted but was stopped by heavy shelling just past Jenbach around halfway to Itter, then recalled by superiors for encroaching into territory of the U. S. 3. 6th Division to the east.

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Only two jeeps of ancillary personnel continued. Upon Čučković's failure to return, and the death at the prison of the former commander of Dachau Eduard Weiter under suspicious circumstances on 2 May, Wimmer feared for his own life and abandoned his post. The SS- Totenkopfverbände guards departed the castle soon after, with the prisoners taking control of the castle and arming themselves with the weaponry that remained. Failing to learn of the result of Čučković's effort, prison leaders accepted the offer of its Czech cook, Andreas Krobot, to bicycle to Wörgl mid- day on 4 May in hopes of reaching help there. Armed with a similar note, he succeeded in contacting Austrian resistance in that town, which had recently been abandoned by Wehrmacht forces but reoccupied by roving Waffen- SS troops. He was taken to Major Josef Gangl, commander of the remains of a unit of Wehrmacht soldiers who had defied an order to retreat and instead thrown in with the local resistance, being made its head. Gangl sought to maintain his unit's position in the town to protect local residents from SS reprisals.

Nazi loyalists would shoot at any window displaying either a white- or Austrian flag, and would summarily execute males as possible deserters. Gangl's hopes were pinned on the Americans reaching Wörgl promptly and surrendering to them. Instead, he would now have to approach them under a white flag to ask for their help. Around the same time, a reconnaissance unit of four Sherman tanks of the 2. Tank Battalion, 1. Armored Division of the US XXI Corps, under the command of Captain Lee, had reached Kufstein, Austria, 1.

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There, in the town square, it idled while waiting for the 1. Infantry Division. Asked to provide relief by Gangl, Lee did not hesitate, volunteering to lead the rescue mission and immediately earning permission from his HQ.

After a personal reconnaissance of the Castle with Gangl in the major's Kübelwagen, Lee left two of his tanks behind but requisitioned five more and supporting infantry from the recently arrived 1. Infantry Regiment of the 3. En route, Lee was forced to send the reinforcements back when a bridge proved too tenuous for the entire column to cross once, let alone twice. Leaving one of his tanks behind to guard it, he set back off accompanied only by 1.

American soldiers, Gangl, and a driver, and a truck carrying ten former German artillerymen. SS troops that had been attempting to set up a roadblock. In the meanwhile, the French prisoners had requested an SS officer, Kurt- Siegfried Schrader, whom they had befriended in Itter during his convalescence from wounds, to take charge of their defense. Upon Lee's arrival at the castle, prisoners greeted the rescuing force warmly but were disappointed at its small size. Lee placed the men under his command in defensive positions around the castle and positioned his tank, "Besotten Jenny", at the main entrance.

Lee had ordered the French prisoners to hide, but they remained outside and fought alongside the American and Wehrmacht soldiers. Throughout the night, the defenders were harried by a reconnaissance force sent to assess their strength and probe the fortress for weaknesses. On the morning of 5 May, a force of 1. Waffen- SS launched their attack.