Editing Sigmaringen (section)

===Modern times===
[[File:Sigmaringen schloss.jpg|thumb|left|Sigmaringen, {{Circa|1900}}]]
[[File:ETH-BIB-Sigmaringen-Inlandflüge-LBS MH01-005924.tif|thumb|left|Sigmaringen, 1929]]
In 1632, the [[Swedes]] occupied the castle during the [[Thirty Years' War]].

From 1806 to 1849, Sigmaringen was the capital of the sovereign [[Principality]] [[Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]] and [[royal residence|residence]] of the princes of Hohenzollern.

As a result of the Sigmaringen Revolution of 1848, the Princes of Hechingen and Sigmaringen abdicated, whereby both principalities fell to [[Prussia]] in 1850. From 1850 to 1945, Sigmaringen was the seat of the [[Prussia]]n Government for the [[Province of Hohenzollern]]. Karl Anton von Hohenzollern was 1858-1862 Prime Minister of Prussia. 
From 1914 to 1918, around 150 men from the town died during [[World War I]]. 
In the Nazi era, a [[Gestapo]] office was located in Sigmaringen. From 1937, it belonged to [[Stuttgart]]'s Gestapo.<ref>Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brueggemann, Roland Maier (eds.). The secret police in Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Stuttgart 2013, {{ISBN|3-89657-138-9}}, p 90ff.</ref>

Between 1934 and 1942, more than 100 men were sterilized because of "hereditary diseases". On 12 December 1940, during the Nazi medical experiments known as the "[[Aktion T4|T4]]", 71 mentally disabled and mentally ill patients became the victims of Nazi injustice. These men and women were deported to the [[Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre]], where they were killed as "unworthy of life".<ref>Thomas Stöckle, ''Grafeneck 1940. The euthanasia crimes in East Germany.'' 2nd Edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005, {{ISBN|3-87407-507-9}}. Thomas Stöckle, head of Memorial in Grafeneck emphasizes that these are preliminary. Basis of the figures are statistical material from the Grafeneck process of 1949 and reports of the individual dispensing stations</ref> After the closure of Grafeneck in December 1940, a further deportation to the [[Hadamar Euthanasia Centre]] occurred on 14 March 1941.

====Vichy French enclave (1944–1945)====
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[[File:Schloss Sigmaringen 2022.jpg|right|thumb|The Castle of Sigmaringen]]

On 7 September 1944, following the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] invasion of France, [[Philippe Pétain]] and members of the [[Vichy France|Vichy government]] cabinet were relocated to Germany, a move which Petain fiercely fought against. A [[city-state]] ruled by the [[government in exile]] headed by [[Fernand de Brinon]] was established at Sigmaringen. One of its most notorious members was [[Joseph Darnand]], a hero of the [[First World War]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}{{Relevant|date=April 2025}} There were three embassies in the city-state, representing each of Vichy-France's allies: Germany, [[Italian Social Republic|Italy]], and [[Empire of Japan|Japan]].

French writers [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], [[Lucien Rebatet]] and [[Roland Gaucher]], fearing for their lives because of their political and antisemitic writings, fled along with the Vichy government to Sigmaringen. Céline's novel ''D'un château l'autre'' (English: ''[[Castle to Castle]]'') describes the fall of Sigmaringen. The city was taken by [[Free French]] forces on 22 April 1945. Pétain returned to France, where he stood trial for treason and was condemned to death, though the sentence was commuted by [[Charles de Gaulle]].{{cn|date=January 2024}}