Leopold III, King of Belgium, detained first at the Royal Castle of Laeken, then at Hirschstein in Saxony from June 1944 to March 1945, and then at Strobl, Austria.
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Born on 21 June 1856 at Červený Kút pri Kráľovej Lehote, a village near Liptovský Hrádok, Slovakia (at that time part of the Kingdom of Hungary), Strobl was a pupil of K. Zumbusch between 1876 and 1880.
Auguste Strobl (24 June 1807 - 22 January 1871, Passau) was a German beauty of the 19th century.
In his final race on March 15, 2007, Fritz Strobl descended the Lenzerheide Super G course dressed as Mozart.
Josef "Pepi" Strobl (March 3, 1974, Holzgau) is a former alpine skier from Austria.
Strobl's 1910 novel Eleagabal Kuperus was adapted as the film Nachtgestalten in 1920, starring Conrad Veidt and directed by Richard Oswald.
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Strobl became a prolific writer of fiction, especially "schauerromanen"—horror stories influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Hanns Heinz Ewers.
Held under house arrest by the Germans until 1944, upon the invasion in Normandy, Léopold, his second wife, and his four children were transferred to Germany and Austria where they remained under house arrest, first in a fort at Hirschstein in Saxony during the winter of 1944–45, and then at Strobl, near Salzburg.
Sankt Gilgen is situated in the north-western shore of the lake Wolfgangsee, close to Strobl and to the Upper Austrian municipality of St. Wolfgang.