The Battle of Castle Itter was one of the weirdest battles in the entire war, and the only time German Wehrmacht units fought together with Americans against the SS. It began on May of 1945, the very last days of the war in Europe, days after Hitler's suicide and the capture of Berlin, when the SS evacuated the area temporarily, giving the opportunity for them to send their cook, Andreas Krobot, to find help. Krobot succeeded in contacting Josef Gangl, who the contacted Captain Jack Lee and his men. The prisoners took over the castle, and the SS returned to recapture it and execute the prisoners, but reinforcements arrived and the SS were defeated and dispersed. What if either before evacuation, the prisoners were executed, or that the Battle of Castle Itter resulted in a Nazi victory, and a similar result happens? The prisoners included tennis player Jean Borotra, former prime ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former commanders-in-chief Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, Charles de Gaulle's elder sister Marie-Agnès Cailliau, right-wing leader and closet French resistance member François de La Rocque, and trade union leader Léon Jouhaux. What impact would their execution have? How much does post-war occupation policy change, if it does at all? What impacts are there on the post-war world more generally?
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