WW II’s Strangest Battle: Americans and Germans Fought Together – Days after Hitler’s suicide American soldiers, French prisoners, and German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division-the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II. Here are the facts: on 5 May 1945-five days after Hitler’s suicide-three Sherman tanks from the 23rd Tank Battalion/12th Armored Division liberated an Austrian castle called Schloss Itter a prison that housed various French VIPs
