Editing Innsbruck (section)

===Annexation and World War II===
{{Main|Bombing of Innsbruck in World War II}}
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1985-083-11, Anschluss Österreich, Innsbruck.jpg|thumb|Some residents of Innsbruck welcomed the German troops after the ''[[Anschluss]]'' on 13 March 1938]]
In 1938 Austria was annexed by [[Nazi Germany]] in the ''[[Anschluss]]''. During [[World War II]], Innsbruck was the location of two subcamps of the [[Dachau concentration camp]], including a special camp for prominent people from 16 countries and their families, who were held as hostages, including former [[Prime Minister of France]] [[Léon Blum]], former [[regent of Hungary]] [[Miklós Horthy]], former Chancellor of Austria [[Kurt Schuschnigg]], Italian general [[Giuseppe Garibaldi II]] and a nephew of [[Winston Churchill]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Megargee|first=Geoffrey P.|year=2009|title=The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I|publisher=Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|pages=484–485|isbn=978-0-253-35328-3}}</ref> Between 1943 and April 1945, Innsbruck experienced twenty-two [[strategic bombing during World War II|air raids]] and suffered heavy damage.