Location: Gressenberg 5, 8541 Bad Schwanberg Dozens of patients were taken from the “Nursing Home for the Mentally Ill of the Reichsgau Styria in Schwanberg” in Schwanberg via the Graz “Am Feldhof Sanatorium and Nursing…

Location: Eibiswald 36, 8552 Eibiswald The doctor and writer Dr. Hans Kloepfer had been a member of the NSDAP with the number 6,109,231 since 1 May 1938. He wrote propagandistic election appeals aimed at the…

Location: Hebalm In April 1945, on the orders of district leader Dr. Hugo Suette, a total of 18 politically “suspicious” people who were known to be resistant to the Nazis, including Dr. Ludwig Mooslechner from…

Location: Schlossplatz 1, 8502 Lannach In 1943, a “Institute for Plant Genetics” operated by the SS was established at the castle, where nine Jehovah’s Witnesses were used as concentration camp prisoners for forced labor. Here,…

Location: Radlpass Josef Krainer senior, the later Landeshauptmann of Styria, was involved in Austrian resistance activities during World War II. In February 1945, he was targeted for arrest by the Nazis. However, he managed to…

Location: Soboth On November 12 and 13, 1932, Soboth was the site of the Hitlerjugend-Grenzlandtreffen, (Hitler Youth Borderland Meeting). The event’s theme was “Die Jugend wird ein neues Deutschland bauen” (“The youth will build a…

Location: St. Lorenzen ob Eibiswald During the interwar period, the boundary stone inscribed with “Oe XVI/1 St. Germain 10. Sept. 1919” became a popular destination for German-national revisionists. These individuals, often with a strong nationalist…

Location: 8530 St. Oswald im Freiland The former Reich Labor Service (RAD) camp was the site of the murder of five partisans who had been operating on the Koralm. They were executed on the orders…

Location: Am Schloßberg 11, 8551 Wies At the castle, there is a memorial plaque for Ing. Alfred Neumann, a Jewish glass factory owner, who was driven to his death by the National Socialists in 1938….