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Fischhorn Castle

Originally the castle dates from about 1200. After a fire in 1920, it was renovated and got it's present shape. From 1938 to the end of World War II, the SS used the castle as satellite camp of Dachau concentration camp. In May 1945, Hermann Göring was captured in the castle by American soldiers.

Nowadays the castle is used as residence. Sometimes there are sightings.

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Related books

The Camp Men
The Third Reich
Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
Hitlers Holocaust