ID Location Italy

[HouweTrouwe]

I would like to get help to positive ID this location in Italy. Many thanks in advance.

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[Marco]

I would like to get help to positive ID this location in Italy. Many thanks in advance.

Hello, can be Esperia castle, on Gustav Line. Do you know the date of the photo?

[HouweTrouwe]

Hello, can be Esperia castle, on Gustav Line. Do you know the date of the photo?

1943. Taken by the SS LAH. Many thanks!

[Marco]

1943. Taken by the SS LAH. Many thanks!

SS LAH? Ok, is not possible this is the castle of Esperia: first SS Pz.Division was in nothern Italy in 1943.

[HouweTrouwe]

SS LAH? Ok, is not possible this is the castle of Esperia: first SS Pz.Division was in nothern Italy in 1943.

I think - due other photographs and place description - that it should be Lago Maggiore . But I would like to have confirmation .

[areilley]

LAH Italy 1943

Can you tell the unit from any vehicle markings? Types of vehicles. Albert Frey led a reinforced Regiment in Ilstre ( sp) on anti Partizan duty after the rest of the division left for Russia.

[HouweTrouwe]

Can you tell the unit from any vehicle markings? Types of vehicles. Albert Frey led a reinforced Regiment in Ilstre ( sp) on anti Partizan duty after the rest of the division left for Russia.

On the photographs mostly are to be seen are LEITHE , BREMER and SCHULZ . Also sometimes WANDER and NEITZEL.

-- The LAH symbol is also hardly seen on the vehicle on the photograph.

[HouweTrouwe]

From what I've found on different sources and got currently NARA research on them (two of them: Schulz and Leithe).

Case Nr. 685
Crime Category: Other Mass Extermination Crimes
Accused:
Krü., Hans Willi Walter Proceeding suspended
Lei., Ludwig Otto Proceeding suspended
Röh., Hans Friedrich Proceeding suspended
Schn., Karl Reinhold Herbert Proceeding suspended
Schu., Oskar Proceeding suspended
Court:
LG Osnabrück 680705
BGH 700317
Country where the crime was committed: Italy
Crime Location: Arona, Baveno, Meina, Mergozzo, Orta, Stresa
Crime Date: 4309
Victims: Jews
Nationality: Italian
Agency: Waffen-SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
Subject of the proceeding: Arrest and execution of a total of 22 Italian Jews in several actions at the Lago Maggiore


Published in Justiz und NS-Verbrechen Vol. XXX

The LSSAH or parts of it were, according to the
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... 1SSPGD.htm ,
around Lagio Maggiore in September 1943 (to disarm the Italians).
It seems they (SS-Pz.-Gren.-Rgt. 2) committed a massacre in Meina on the Lagio Maggiore when they killed 20 Jews: "Bereits am 15. September hatten Angehörige des SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiments 2 in Meina am Lago Maggiore etwa 20 Juden aufgegriffen und erschossen."
Maybe your pic shows members of SS-Pz.-Gren.-Rgt. 2 around September 15th, 1943?