Major Waldemar Mestrozi

On the evening before the occupation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht, Waldemar Mestrozi receives an order from Guido Zernatto to pack the cash assets of the Vaterländische Front, amounting to one million schillings, into suitcases and take them away. He complies with this order and deposits the money in the Federal Chancellery. He then accompanies Guido Zernatto and Friedrich Stockinger in their car as they flee to the Czechoslovak Republic. At the border in Perg, the Czechoslovak border authorities turn him back because he does not have a valid passport. He then returned to Vienna.

On March 12, 1938, Waldemar Mestrozi witnessed the demise of free and independent Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht. One day later, on March 13, 1938, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Dachau concentration camp