
Guard Duty - Saalfelden
According to Webster, after they had been in Kaprun a few days they were sent up to Saalfelden to man the cross roads and the railway station, to both guard and keep order.
The Germans were being moved out of Austria via the railway under the command of Field Marshal Kesselring. The DPs were to be moved out as well. Webster described the view from the billets they held the second evening they were there.
"The ground beyond the brook was a level meadowland for two miles to a row of gray, snowcapped mountains that formed the northern boundary of the of the valley. A picturesque, 13th-century castle stood in the meadow halfway to the mountains.... The castle was occupied by a colony of Polish farmworkers brought here as slave labor by the Germans." (Webster: 282)
Dorfheim Castle, just outside of Saafelden, Austria. May, 2015
The view Webster described is still visible today. The Castle he described is Dorfheim castle and is situated about 650 yards from the crossroads at Saalfelden on Dorfheimerstraße.

"They stopped talking and stared out the window, which overlooked a big stone barn, half as long as the hotel and parallel to it ten yards away, that served as a home for several dozen displaced persons and refugeess from bombed cities of Austria and Germnay. Poles And Czechs who had once worked in the hotel still occupied dar, damp little rooms in the barn's half cellar."
"A line of three sooty washpots had been set up below the window near the ramp that led to the barn's huge front door."
(Webster:281)
Barn with large ramp in the general area where Webster described they were billeted. The peaks of the towers of the Castle are just visible at the foot of the crane beyond the barn. There are a few other buildings near the barn, at least one of which is a hotel.

To the left, a gray brook with a charming, shaded gravel path curved toward the barn, then swung away from it and continued through small truck gardens toward the main part of Saalfelden, almost a mile distant. (Webster: 281)
A path runs along both sides of the brook today, one side is still gravel, and it is still shaded by trees.