Itter Castle

Itter Castle
Schloss Itter
Itter, Tyrol, Austria
Itter Castle, view from south, February 2010
Schloss Itter Shown within Austria
Coordinates	47°28′14″N 12°8′23″E / 47.47056°N 12.13972°E / 47.47056; 12.13972
Type	Castle
Site information
Owner	Privately owned
Open to the public	No
Site history
Battles/wars	Battle for Castle Itter

Itter Castle (German: Schloss Itter) is a 19th-century castle in Itter, a village in Tyrol, Austria. In 1943, during World War II, it was turned into a Nazi prison for French VIPs. The castle was the site of an extraordinary instance of the U.S. Army, German Wehrmacht, Austrian Resistance, and the prisoners themselves fighting side-by-side against the Waffen-SS in the battle for Castle Itter in early May 1945 before the end of the war in Europe.