Location: Aflenzer Straße 19-17, 8435 Wagna The Graz-Leibnitz satellite camp of Mauthausen concentration camp existed from February 9, 1944 to the beginning of April 1945 and was constructed to enable an underground armaments production for…
Location: Laubegg 1, 8413 Laubegg At the beginning of May 1944, Gauleiter Dr. Siegfried Uiberreither opened the new Gauschulungsburg Laubegg in the Leibnitz district. The political leaders of the NSDAP were trained in this training…
Location: Pößnitz 163, 8463 Leutschach an der Weinstraße The chapel commemorates the monarchical resistance fighter Dr. Wolfgang Mayer-Gutenau and the two priests, Dr. Riegler and Anton Zupanic. Mayer-Gutenau was executed in Berlin on October 25,…
Location: Schloßberg, 8463 Leutschach an der Weinstraße On November 17, 1944, the castle was hit by an aerial bomb, killing three people. The south wing and the tower on the park side were also destroyed….
Location: Seggauberg 1, 8430 Leibnitz Although the Seggauberg episcopal refectory escaped confiscation by the Nazi regime, it was commissioned to serve as a seed propagation center. As the war progressed, the majority of the local…
Location: St. Veit in der Südsteiermark On August 24, 1945, 24 bodies were found in two graves in the Karwald forest during forest work. Among those identified were the former district leader of the Leibnitz…
Location: Eisenbahnerstraße 7, 8435 Wagna The camp in Wagna was used several times and in different ways during the Nazi era. In 1940/41 it was a resettlement camp of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, in 1941/42 it…
Location: Sv. Duh na Ostrem Vrhu 53 (Slovenia) The church is in Slovenia, the gorge in Austria. Sveti Duh is representative of the problem of the “dual owners” that arose with the end of the…
Location: Dorfstraße 17, 8430 Wagna From 1942 to 1945, Retzhof Castle was home to the “Gebietsführerschule I” of the Styrian Hitler Youth (HJ). The school trained HJ followers, sub-band and regular leaders as well as…
Location: Aug 15, 8410 Wildon In 1938, the Guggenbacher machine paper factory Adolf Ruhmann and with it the Trattenmühle were taken over by Dr. Adolf Sandner. The change of ownership was practically tantamount to “Aryanization”….