Editing Tyrol (state) (section)

=== WWII ===
Tyrol was the center of an important resistance group against Nazi Germany around Walter Caldonazzi, which united with the group around the priest [[Heinrich Maier]] and the Tyrolean Franz Josef Messner. The Catholic resistance group very successfully passed on plans and production facilities for [[V-1 flying bomb|V-1 rocket]]s, [[V-2 rocket]]s, [[Tiger tank]]s, [[Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet]] and other aircraft to the Allies, with which they could target German production facilities. Maier and his group informed the American secret service OSS very early on about the mass murder of Jews in Auschwitz. For after the war they planned an Austria united with South Tyrol and Bavaria.<ref>Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper, Thomas Mang, Wolfgang Neugebauer: ''Gestapo-Leitstelle Wien 1938–1945.'' Vienna 2018, {{ISBN|978-3902494832}}, pp.&nbsp;299–305; Hans Schafranek: ''Widerstand und Verrat: Gestapospitzel im antifaschistischen Untergrund.'' Vienna 2017, {{ISBN|978-3707606225}}, pp. 161–248; Christoph Thurner "The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War&nbsp;II Austria: A History of the OSS's Maier-Messner Group" (2017), p.&nbsp;35.</ref>

After [[World War II]], North Tyrol was governed by [[France]] and East Tyrol was part of the British Zone of occupation until [[Austria]] regained independence in 1955.