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    Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany and served as the fifth and final...
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  • politician Jan Alois Hanke [de] (1751–1806), Bohemian humanist, writer in Czech and German Karl Hanke (1903–1945), Nazi Party official Karol Hanke (1903–1964)...
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    project gave rise to the Deutschrechtliches Institut, headed by Professor Karl Eckhardt, at the University of Bonn. When Hitler and his army chiefs asked...
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    secretary of his ministry served as vice president: Walther Funk (1933–1938) Karl Hanke (1938–1941) Leopold Gutterer (1941–1944) Werner Naumann (1944–1945) SS...
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    persons held the position as a title while two held the actual SS rank. Hanke was appointed SS leader in April 1945, but not informed until early May...
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    political testament of 30 April 1945. To replace himself, Hitler named Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as Reichskanzler...
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    Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Max Amann received the rank a year later along with Karl von Eberstein and Philipp Bouhler. The year 1936 saw several promotions to...
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    not wishing to formally be subordinate to Himmler. Himmler's successor, Karl Hanke, never held the rank of Oberst-Gruppenführer, but was appointed Reichsführer-SS...
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    Viktor Lutze, Wilhelm Schepmann) Schutzstaffel (SS) (Heinrich Himmler, Karl Hanke) Allgemeine SS (General SS) SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) SS-Verfügungstruppe...
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    Heiden (predecessor as Reichsführer-SS) Karl Hanke (successor as Reichsführer-SS) Falk Zipperer (closest friend) Karl Gebhardt (personal physician) Felix...
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    Konstantin Hierl, 24 February 1945 Karl Hanke, 12 April 1945 (killed during a POW escape attempt at a transport on 8 June 1945) Karl Holz, 19 April 1945 (killed...
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  • According to Karl Ortner, his body had a gunshot wound to the head. The probable date of death was officially set as 19 March 1933. Karl Hanke At that time...
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    Swords) Josef Grohé (1st class, with Swords) Eugen Hadamovsky (1st class) Karl Hanke (1st class) Adolf Heusinger (1st class, with Swords) Reinhard Heydrich...
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    Magda Goebbels in turn began an affair with Goebbels' state secretary Karl Hanke and eventually asked Hitler for permission to divorce her husband. According...
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    intervened as he saw fit regarding convictions and punishment. Historian Karl Dietrich Bracher describes this court system as one factor in the creation...
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    with Reinhard Heydrich and Fritz Todt joining the Luftwaffe, as well as Karl Hanke who served in the army. The British historian Richard J. Evans wrote that...
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    Solstice Young Joshua Turner Television film 1982 Inside the Third Reich Karl Hanke Tales of the Gold Monkey Jake Cutter Main role 1983 Chiefs Billy Lee Miniseries...
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    Silesia was held by Karl Hanke throughout the short history of the Gau. On 29 April 1945, Hitler, in his political testament, appointed Hanke to be the last...
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    conflict with the Gauleiter of the city Karl Hanke who had been declared Breslau’s “battle commander” by Hitler. Hanke advocated a breakout using parachute...
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  • post-war accounts by surviving participants. According to a post-war account by Karl Strölin, the Oberbürgermeister of Stuttgart at that time, he and two other...
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    of Police (Reichsführer-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei): Gauleiter Karl Hanke Minister of Economy (Wirtschaft): Walther Funk Minister of Agriculture...
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    Leaders Julius Schreck Joseph Berchtold Erhard Heiden Heinrich Himmler Karl Hanke Main departments Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS SS Main Office Head Operational...
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    also had affairs, including relationships with Kurt Ludecke in 1933 and Karl Hanke in 1938. At the outbreak of war, Magda's son by her first marriage, Harald...
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    Reichstag elections. While they were there his friend, Nazi Party official Karl Hanke recommended the young architect to Joseph Goebbels to help renovate the...
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    Secretary Walther Funk in his office. In the background, Goebbels' assistant Karl Hanke takes a call. Statutory corporation overview Formed 1933 (1933) Dissolved...
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    Leaders Julius Schreck Joseph Berchtold Erhard Heiden Heinrich Himmler Karl Hanke Main departments Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS SS Main Office Head Operational...
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    evidence tying specific murders to specific defendants. SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Gesele (February 1942 – September 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Max Simon (3 October...
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    Lower Silesia, Greater German Reich Siege of Breslau Battle Commander Karl Hanke Soviet Armed Forces Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist...
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    (Festung), and ordered that it must be defended at all costs. He named Karl Hanke, Gauleiter of Silesia since 1941, to be the city's "Battle Commander"...
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    Elected at Reichstag 1932 to his death in 1941. Leader of SA Brigade 77. Karl Hanke – A State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda (1937–1941); Gauleiter...
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