Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the state of Styria in central Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Pölstal.Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
History During World War II, Nazi Germany operated the Bretstein concentration camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Bretstein, whose prisoners were Spanish Republicans and German Jehovah's Witnesses. Five Spaniards were murdered after an unsuccessful escape attempt.
Geography Bretstein lies in the Niedere Tauern.
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