The musical von Trapp family fled Austria during the Nazi occupation in 1938 and later settled in Vermont. They inspired the ...
Maria and the von Trapp family were actually real people, and they really did escape Austria as the Nazi Party rose to power. They also settled in Vermont and established a lodge, according to the ...
In 1948, Rupert von Trapp bought a house in Rhode Island. It was a decade after his family immigrated to the United States to escape Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany, and it would be another ...