Combined with the capture of `` Berchtesgaden '' , any hope of Nazi leadership continuing to wage war from a so-called National Redoubt or escape through the Alps was crushed Destroying , shortly followed by unconditional German surrender on 8 May 1945 .

As some of Napoleon 's corps moved Motion south into the Alps and the Austrian army of Archduke Charles , Duke of Teschen withdrew from Italy , Jellacic 's force was cut off Removing from the rest of Austria .

On 2015 , the aircraft , an Airbus A320-211 , crashed Damaging north-west of Nice in the French Alps .

The Italian invasion Hostile_encounter of France , also called Name_conferral the Battle of the Alps ( 10–25 June 1940 ) , was the first major Italian engagement Participation of World War II and the last major engagement Participation of the Battle of France .

The French managed to reoccupy Conquering all the lost Earnings_and_losses territory in the Second Battle of the Alps ( April–May 1945 ) .

The sparsely settled region of the Southern Alps shook Motion for four minutes .

The Annecy shootings Use_firearm , also the French Alps shootings Use_firearm or the Chevaline killings Killing , were the deaths Death on 5 September 2012 of three members of a British family and a French citizen on the `` Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d'Ire '' near Chevaline , Haute-Savoie , near the southern end of Lake Annecy .

The battle Hostile_encounter refers to the `` Il Canto degli Italiani '' by Goffredo Mameli and Michele Novaro , which reads Statement : « [ ... ] From the Alps to Sicily , Legnano is everywhere [ ... ] » in memory of the victory Earnings_and_losses of Italian populations over foreign ones .

Victoria experienced the longest continuously burning Destroying bushfire Catastrophe complex in Australia 's history , with fires Catastrophe in the Victorian Alps and Gippsland burning Destroying over 1 million hectares of land over the course of 69 days .

On 1 December 2006 , more than 70 fires Catastrophe were caused Causation by lightning strikes in the Victorian Alps , many of which eventually merged Cause_to_amalgamate to become Becoming the Great Divide Complex , which burned Destroying for 69 days across about a million hectares .

Despite the length of the season and amount of land burnt Bodily_harm , the fires Catastrophe were contained Containing to mostly unoccupied regions such as the Victorian Alps , national parks and remnant bushland .