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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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    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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  • 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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    Linz am Rhein (German pronunciation: [ˈlɪnts ʔam ˈʁaɪn] , lit. 'Linz on the Rhine') is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate...
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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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  • 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)
    strengthening the SS there. From mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS Abschnitt VIII in Linz and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS. To provide...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Otto Skorzeny (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
    (12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a...
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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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    Franz Langoth (category Politicians from Linz)
    Nazi movement. He was a judge on the People's Court, an SS-Brigadeführer and the mayor of Linz. Though interned by the Allies at the end of the Second...
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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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    Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (category SS and police leaders)
    1935, he succeeded Ernst Kaltenbrunner as the commander of the 37th SS-Standarte in Linz, which he would continue to lead until March 1939. For ongoing subversive...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Christoph Linz (born 1529), German settler in Brazil Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German...
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    Heinrich Barbl (category SS personnel)
    plumber employed at the nitrogen works in Linz as a gas and waterpipe fitter. He joined the Nazi Party and the SS after the Anschluss of Austria. He was...
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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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    Otto Hoegelow (category Waffen-SS personnel)
    14 January 1895 in Linz am Rhein) was a German SS Hauptscharführer and war criminal. Otto Hoegelow (born 14 January 1895 in Linz am Rhein) was a veteran...
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