WWII-AUSTRIA-ITTER-LIBERATION

French Edouard Daladier leaves Itter castle May 5,1945, after Itter was freed by the US army. French Statesman and Prime minister, Daladier supported appeasement policies and signed the Munich Pact. He resigned in 1940, became successively War and Foreign minister, and on the fall of France was arrested and interned in Itter until 1945. In April 1943, with the permission of the Vichy authorities, the German authorities incarcarated French leaders Leon Blum, Edouard Daladier, General Gamelin, Leon Jouhaux, Paul Raynaud, Jean Borotra, General Weygand and his wife, and Alfred Cailliau and his wife Marie-Agnes de Gaulle among others, who were detained at the Itter Castle. On the 30th of April the commander of Dachau camp found refuge at Itter where he committed suicide. On the 4th of May the SS left the castle as the first Americans arrived. The next day Germans bombed the castle. Jean Borotra, a famous tennis player and former Minister of Sports, guided the US army to the castle. All prisoners left Itter for Innsbrück and were finally taken back to France 9 May 1945. (Photo by ERIC SCHWAB / AFP) (Photo by ERIC SCHWAB/AFP via Getty Images)