Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers and tanks advance towards Castle Itter in Austria in May 1945. By early May 1945 the war in Europe was all but over.

Capturing Itter Castle was a tough challenge as Nazi troops were in the surrounding woods Seventy years ago one of the most unlikely battles of World War Two took place, at Itter in the Austrian Alps.

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard ...

Schloss Itter (Itter Castle) viewed from the east, along the pathway to the entrance, in 1979 / photo Steve J. Morgan on Wikimedia Commons Austria seems to have a certain magnet for unusual military ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WWII The Battle for Castle Itter is a solitaire card driven tabletop boardgame. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com ...

One of the final battles of World War Two could have come straight out of a Hollywood movie. US and rebel German forces united to defend a mediaeval castle against hardline Nazi troops who were intent ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.