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    SS Linz was an Austro-Hungarian Ocean Liner that hit a mine in the Adriatic Sea 4 miles northwest of the Cape of Rodon, while she was travelling from...
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  • Germany Linz, a subdivision of the town of Himmelberg in Carinthia, Austria Land Information New Zealand, a New Zealand government agency SS Linz, an Austro-Hungarian...
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    Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). - Total pages: 880 Wrecksite.eu (2017). "SS Linz [+1918]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved November 13, 2017. Whyte, Brendan and...
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    the Linz art gallery, was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz, near...
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    The Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße (Fadingergymnasium) is a specialized secondary school in the city center of Linz, Austria. It is located on...
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  • Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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    Ukrainian forces overran the region within a month. Austrian ocean liner SS Linz struck a mine and sank in the Adriatic Sea, killing 697 passengers and...
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    The SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" (German: 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend") was a German armoured division of...
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  • Walter Reder (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
    he left for Linz and received education at the Handelsakademie Linz [de]. That same year, he joined the Hitler Youth. Reder joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe...
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    Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS Abschnitt VIII in Linz and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS. To provide Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard...
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    1944 – January 25, 1945). Although it never received an SS designation, calling it the 6th SS Panzer Army came into general use in military history literature...
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  • Franz Stangl (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    in Linz, where he was posted to the Jewish Bureau (German: Judenreferat). Stangl joined the SS in May 1938. He ultimately reached the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer...
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    Austria. German 6th Panzer Army – east of Linz I SS Panzer Corps 1st SS Panzer Division 12th SS Panzer Division 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division 710th Infantry...
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    above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further...
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  • Karl Steubl (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    Holocaust. Arrested after the war in Europe ended, Steubl committed suicide in Linz, Austria. Before his last assignment at Sobibor in occupied Poland, Steubl...
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  • to his mother's wish, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz, Austria, where the family lived. According to John Willard Toland, witnesses...
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    August Eigruber (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    finished." Toward the end of the war, as U.S. forces approached his capital at Linz, he proclaimed the city a "fortress" to be defended to the bitter end. In...
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    prisoners in weakened condition were transported to Hartheim Castle near Linz, and were executed by poison gas because they were deemed unfit.: 137  Between...
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    Franz Reichleitner (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    number 357,065. He began his career as a Kriminalsekretär of the Gestapo in Linz. Later Reichleitner was assigned to work in the Action T4 euthanasia program...
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  • Andreas Bolek (category SS-Brigadeführer)
    war, he returned to Linz in 1919, where he married and later had four daughters. From 1923 to June 1933, he was employed at the Linz Electricity and Tram...
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    Adolf Eichmann (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    seven months later (SS member number 45,326). His regiment was SS-Standarte 37, responsible for guarding the party headquarters in Linz and protecting party...
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    Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Teplice – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Venice – Ravenna –...
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  • Linz and others like him had been put on trial because during WWII his firm, IG Farben, had hired Monowitz Concentration Camp inmates from the SS as...
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  • November 2012. "Giovanni Albanesi". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 November 2012. "SS Linz". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 8 November 2015. "San Francesco Di Paolo". Uboat...
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  • Rudolf "Rudi" Linz (14 February 1917 – 9 February 1945) was a Luftwaffe (German air force) fighter ace during World War II. He is credited with 70 aerial...
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  • by Danziger Werft AG, Danzig. Launched in 1939 as refrigerated cargo ship Linz for Norddeutscher Lloyd and completed at Odense Staalskibsværft, Odense,...
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    program to create massive public buildings, including a Führermuseum in Linz, Austria. Hitler had a long-standing vision for a monumental Volkshalle or...
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    Lambach Schloß Lannach Leibnitz Lenzing Schloß Lind Lindau Linz Aufräumungskommando Linz I Linz II Linz III Loibl-Paß Nord Süd Marialanzendorf Mauthausen main...
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    Eduard Wirths (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New York: Basic Books. University of Linz: SS-DOCTOR DR. EDUARD WIRTHS Dr. E.W.J. Pearce, (1996) "Antigone: An Exercise...
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    Adolf Hitler's Obersalzberg complex and such as SS barracks. Fick also was given the task of redesigning Linz. His work was part of the architecture event...
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