What the records say
- When
- 5 May 1945
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 47.47° N, 12.14° E
- Description
- battle year 1945 in which U.S. infantry and armour, Wehrmacht Heer, French prisoners and Austrian partisans took Castle Itter from the occupying Waffen SS
- War
- World War II
Battle of Castle Itter
1945 battle of World War II
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.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht um Schloss Itter kämpfen Soldaten der United States Army und der Wehrmacht gemeinsam gegen Einheiten der 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division „Götz…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Бой у замка Иттер в Австрии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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