At the end of WW2, after the Battle of Berlin and Hitler's s*icide, Germany collapse, but WW2 didn't end immediately, as the German army was split between the Wehrmacht and the SS, during these final moments of the war, a political jail within the Austrian medieval castle call Castle Itter, became one of the strangest battle of WW2 where an American lieutenant John "Jack" Lee, Wehrmacht Major Josef Gangl, and a deserted SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader fought alongside the French prisoners of war, including a famous tennis player, against the SS army. It's one of the wackiest stories I ever heard during WW2 and sounds like it came straight out of a WW2 comedy action movie plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castle_Itter
The Battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II.
Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Lieut. John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr., a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led ...