Stephen Harding
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“Though ostensibly men of both God and peace, the bishops of Regensburg were also princes of the Holy Roman Empire. As temporal rulers the bishops were often heavy-handed and needlessly severe, and Schloss Itter saw frequent service as a base from which the bishops launched punitive expeditions against their sorely oppressed subjects. Though Tyrol came under Hapsburg rule in 1363, Schloss”
― The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
― The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
“its requisitioning. Plans for the conversion were apparently overseen by no less a personage than architect Albert Speer, Hitler’s minister of armaments and war production,25 with the actual construction supervised by SS-Second Lieutenant Ludwig Petz.26 A member of Dachau’s facilities branch, he arrived at Itter on February 8 with twenty-seven prisoners—twelve from Dachau and fifteen from Flossenbürg27—all of whom had before their arrests been carpenters, plumbers, and the like.28 Petz also took along some ten members of Dachau’s SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) unit29 to act as a security detail during the conversion work; they would be replaced by”
― The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
― The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
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