On March 25, 1945, the wealthy Thyssen family organized a macabre human safari for capitalist oligarchs at one of their lavish parties in the courtyard of their castle in Rechnitz, Austria, where they killed at least 180 people for sport.

After the banquet, the Thyssens and their wealthy guests locked 180 prisoners, taken from Nazi concentration camps, in a stable. They forced them to undress and run around the mansion’s courtyard, as if it were a macabre game. They distributed weapons among themselves and began shooting at the prisoners from the balconies until they were all dead… and then continued drinking and dancing until dawn.

These prisoners had been at the Thyssen castle to defend it from the “Soviet threat.” They had been brought there as slave labor to fortify the castle, and with the inevitable end of Nazism approaching, the 180 weakest prisoners were chosen to be the victims of this human safari.

In the photo: Countess Margit von Thyssen receiving a trophy from a Nazi official at the Vienna Horse Show in 1942.

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2036727101781389478#m

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    • One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The war was almost over and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Around midnight, some of the guests were asked to “take care” of 180 Jewish enslaved laborers at the train station; they made them strip naked and shot them all before returning to the bright lights of the party. It was another one of the war’s countless atrocities buried in secrecy for decades–until Sacha Batthyany started investigating what happened that night at the party his great aunt hosted.