Photos Taken in Austria | World War II Database

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Austro-Hungarian Schwarzlose MG M.07/12 medium machine gun crew in the Tyrolean region of Austria, 1914-1918	German policemen marching into Imst, Austria, 12 Mar 1938	Adolf Hitler parading in Vienna in occupied Austria, 14 Mar 1938	Seyß-Inquart, Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich in Vienna, Austria, 1938

Adolf Hitler at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Reichsautobahn project, Walserberg, Austria, 7 Apr 1938; note Fritz Todt behind Hitler	German propaganda at the voting booth urging Austrians to vote in favor of the annexation, Austria, 10 Apr 1938	Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky, Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Hungarian Foreign Minister Kálmán Kánya at the First Vienna Arbitration, 2 Nov 1938	German Army General Werner Kienitz speaking to recruits at the Heldenplatz in Vienna, Austria, 9 Dec 1938; note 7.5 le.IG 18 infantry guns on display

German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop shaking hands with Slovakian President Jozef Tiso, Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, Jul 1940	Slovakian President Jozef Tiso and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, 29 Jul 1940, photo 1 of 2	Slovakian President Jozef Tiso and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, 29 Jul 1940, photo 2 of 2	Slovakian Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Slovakian President Jozef Tiso, Salzburg, German-occupied Austria, 29 Jul 1940

Adolf Hitler (foreground), Pál Teleki (foreground), Galeazzo Ciano (behind Hitler), Saburo Kurusu (behind Ciano), and others at the ceremony in which Hungary signed the Tripartite Pact, Vienna, Austria, 20 Nov 1940	Ion Antonescu and Hermann Göring at the Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria, 5 Mar 1941	Reich Commissioner Heinrich Himmler inspecting the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, 27 Apr 1941; the others were, left to right: Gauleiter August Eigruber (over Ziereis's right shoulder), Commandant Franz Ziereis (to Himmler's right), SS-Obersturmführer August Schmidhuber (over Ziereis's left shoulder), General Karl Wolff (behind Himmler), and Franz Kutschera (right edge of photo)	Overhead view of B-17 Fortress bombers flying from Italy on a raid to bomb the rail yards at Weiner Neustadt near Vienna, Austria, Apr 1944.

Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring at the demonstration of the newly developed Hetzer tank destroyer at a closed highway near Schloss Klessheim west of Salzburg, German occupied Austria, 20 Apr 1944; note Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (left of photo, showing full face), Wilhelm Keitel (left of photo, red lapel), and Ferdinand Porsche (right of photo, black hat) in background	Crew bails out of damaged B-17F Fortress “Patches” at 22,500 feet over Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 10 May 1944. 8 of the crew became POWs and the other 2 were killed. Note 2 right engines feathered	B-17G Fortress of the 15th Air Force flies with No. 4 engine feathered and right wing smoking on a mission to Zwölfaxing, Austria, Jul 8 1944	B-24 Liberators of the 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force flying from Spinazzola, Italy bombing the railroad yards in Salzburg, Austria, 22 Nov 1944. The smoke is from smudge pots lit to obscure the target.