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    extermination camp, and became the most notorious of the camps. Auschwitz III, or Monowitz, was a labour camp. In addition to the three largest camps,...
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    Gliwice (redirect from Gleiwitz)
    Gliwice (Polish: [ɡliˈvit͡sɛ] ; German: Gleiwitz, pronounced [ˈɡlaɪvɪts] ; Silesian: Gliwicy) is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland. The city...
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    Euphemia, Bolko III was forced to pledge his main city of Münsterberg. However, thanks to this union, Bolko III could take possession over Gleiwitz in 1369;...
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    Laurahütte, and Sosnowitz II in Sosnowiec, the 6th Company to Gleiwitz I, II and III in Gliwice, and the 7th Company to Blechhammer in Blachownia. In...
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    Chevilly. The 25 peacetime Corps of the German Army (Guards, I - XXI, I - III Bavarian) had a reasonably standardised organisation. Each consisted of two...
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    Poland and Czechoslovakia The German radio station Sender Gleiwitz (Gliwice), the Gleiwitz incident being arguably the most notable of the Operation Himmler...
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    government in the form of the nominally independent state of Manchukuo. The Gleiwitz incident in 1939 involved Reinhard Heydrich fabricating evidence of a Polish...
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    Krapkowicach) (102 POWs) E17 in Opole at a cement factory E22 in Gliwice-Sośnica (Gleiwitz-Oehrigen) at Sośnica (Sosnitza) coal mine (290 POWs) (Stalag VIII-B Teschen)...
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  • father, Shlomo, were forced on a death march from Buna (Auschwitz III) to Gleiwitz. In December 1939, 2,000 male Jews from Chełm, Poland, were forced...
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    (1919–1938) and Kattowitz (1941–1945), while other major towns included Beuthen, Gleiwitz, Hindenburg O.S., Neiße, Ratibor and Auschwitz, added in 1941 (the place...
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    Austrian administration. Grafenwöhr Camp and Lazarett (Bavarian Corps) Gleiwitz. Located in a cavalry barracks. British prisoners sent there after March...
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    Pol III was a patrol boat of the Royal Norwegian Navy, used for guarding the inlet of the Oslofjord in early April 1940. She was a small vessel, originally...
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  • concentration camps in Germany. Eliezer and his father are marched to Gleiwitz to be put on a freight train to Buchenwald, a camp near Weimar, Germany...
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    orders for Treatment of Soviet Prisoners of War Le Paradis massacre Oflag Gleiwitz incident, 1939 Operation Greif, 1944 Severity Order ess.uwe.ac.uk icrc...
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    story that noted Nazi troops on the move near Gleiwitz (now Gliwice), which led to the false flag Gleiwitz incident on 31 August 1939. On 28 August 1939...
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  • Ulanen-Regiment Kaiser Alexander III von Rußland Nr.1 Militsch, Ostrowo 2 Ulanen-Regiment von Katzler Nr.2 Gleiwitz, Pleß 3 Ulanen-Regiment Kaiser Alexander...
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    incorporation, Petersdorf was an area in the Landkreis Tost-Gleiwitz. As a neighborhood of Gleiwitz the area experienced further expansion. During World War...
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    design by Captain Müller was assigned to the Oberschlesien Eisenwerk of Gleiwitz, which had partially completed two prototypes by October. The project received...
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    forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. Slovak military forces advanced alongside the Germans in northern...
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  • the Piast dynasty in Silesia Bolko III of Ziębice (1348–1410), Duke of Münsterberg and ruler over Gleiwitz Bolko III of Strzelce (1337–1382), Duke of Opole...
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    production took place in several subcamps, including Charlottengrube, Gleiwitz II, and Rajsko. Living conditions in some of the camps were so poor that...
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    design by Captain Müller was assigned to the Oberschlesien Eisenwerk of Gleiwitz, which had partially completed two prototypes by October 1918. It was a...
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  • XVII Army Corps 22nd (1st Upper Silesian) Infantry "Keith" 1 July 1813 Gleiwitz, Kattowitz VI Army Corps 23rd (2nd Upper Silesian) Infantry "von Winterfeldt"...
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    2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine Die Volksabstimmung in Oberschlesien 1921: Gleiwitz und Tost Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Die Volksabstimmung...
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  • needed] 1939 - Operation Himmler and its Gleiwitz incident - false-flag attacks, including on a radio station in Gleiwitz, by Nazi Germany and SS officers disguised...
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  • Chef der Gestapo in Darmstadt. 1937 wurde er Chef der Kriminalpolizei von Gleiwitz. Im September 1939 war er im Stab der Einsatzgruppe II in Polen eingesetzt...
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    the Polish uniforms needed for the false flag attack on the station in Gleiwitz. When the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) was established in September...
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    zone – between the cities of Beuthen (Bytom), Kattowitz (Katowice), and Gleiwitz (Gliwice) was the heart of this large industrial complex. The Upper Silesia...
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  • Jabłonków incident 28 August: Tarnów bombing 30 August: Peking Plan 31 August: Gleiwitz incident 31 August: German ultimatum 1 September: German invasion begins...
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  • with captive anti-Fascist 1961 East Germany The Gleiwitz Case Der Fall Gleiwitz Gerhard Klein Gleiwitz incident, 1939 1961 United Kingdom The Guns of Navarone...
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