Editing Schellenberg (section)

==History==
===Early history===
{{see also|Lordship of Schellenberg}}
The area was first settled by [[Celts]], then by [[Rhaetia]]ns. [[Rome]] conquered the area in 15 BC, and made it part of the province of Rhaetia. The Province later became a county (countship) under [[Charlemagne]]. The county was repeatedly divided among heirs.<ref name=schellenberg>[http://www.schellenberg.li/files/medienarchiv/Schellenberg-history.pdf History of Schellenberg]</ref>

The [[Lordship of Schellenberg]] was purchased by the Counts of [[Vaduz]] in 1437 and the two states have been united in fact ever since. After the [[Swabian War]] in 1499, both came under [[Austria]]n suzerainty. Different dynasties of counts bought and sold them, until their purchase in the early 18th century by the [[Liechtenstein dynasty]], which had been granted princely status in 1706, but which needed to acquire a territory with imperial immediacy in order to vote in the Diet of the Princes of the Empire. The emperor formally united Vaduz and Schellenberg in 1719 as the Principality of Liechtenstein.<ref name=schellenberg/><ref>[http://states-world.com/state.php/1325 The Lordship of Schellenberg] on states-world.com</ref>

===World War II===
The Russian Monument, located in [[Hinterschellenberg]], in the municipality commemorates the asylum given to Russian soldiers during the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Monday |date=13 April 1953 |title=Last of the Wehrmacht |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818218,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222120252/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818218,00.html |archive-date=22 December 2008 |access-date=21 April 2023 |magazine=Time}}</ref> Near the end of World War II, Liechtenstein granted asylum to approximately five hundred soldiers of the [[First Russian National Army]], a collaborationist Russian force within the German [[Wehrmacht]]. This act was no small matter, as the country was poor and had difficulty feeding and caring for such a large group of refugees.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Tolstoy |first=Nikolai |title=The Secret Betrayal |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1977 |isbn=0-684-15635-0 |language=English}}</ref> Eventually, [[Argentina]] agreed to resettle the asylum seekers permanently.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Wanger |first=Harald |date=31 December 2011 |title=Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Liechtenstein,_Franz_Josef_II._von |access-date=15 June 2023 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref> In contrast, [[Operation Keelhaul|the British repatriated the Russians who fought on the German side to the USSR]].