Why they never taught you about this WWII ending #History #Education #WW2

May 5, 1945. Hitl€r was d€ad. Berlin had fallen. The war was effectively over.
But in a medieval castle in the Austrian Alps, one final battle was about to begin.
Castle Itter held France’s most important prisoners — former Prime Ministers, military generals, and a world-famous tennis star. As fanatical SS troops moved in to execute every prisoner before Germany’s surrender became official, something nobody could have predicted happened.
A Wehrmacht commander switched sides.
German Captain Josef Gangl made contact with approaching American forces and proposed an alliance. US Captain John Lee agreed on the spot.
American soldiers, German Wehrmacht troops, and the French prisoners themselves — grabbing weapons and fighting from the battlements — held the castle together against a full SS attack with tanks and infantry.
Two French Prime Ministers who hated each other in peacetime fought shoulder to shoulder. A tennis champion shot at SS soldiers from the castle walls.
Captain Gangl was kil€d by an SS snip€r. He is still honoured as a hero in Austria today.
The last battle of World War II in Europe wasn’t the Allies defeating Germany.
It was Americans and Germans fighting together against the worst of what the Na¥i regime had become.

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