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    Ohrdruf (German: [ˈoːɐ̯ˌdʁʊf] ) is a small town in the district of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It lies some 30 km southwest of Erfurt at the...
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    Ohrdruf was a German forced labour and concentration camp located near Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration...
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    St. Michaelis Kirche (St. Michael's Church) in the Thuringian town of Ohrdruf was the church where Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest brother, Johann Christoph...
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  • Ohrdruf Priory or Karmel St. Elija, Ohrdruf, is a Carmelite monastery at Ohrdruf in Thuringia, Germany. It is the latest in a series of religious foundations...
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  • Ohrdruf is a town in the German state of Thuringia. Ohrdruf may also refer to: Ohrdruf concentration camp Ohrdruf Priory Michaeliskirche (Ohrdruf) This...
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    Rhine-Westphalia, with another located in Skanderborg, Denmark, and one in Ohrdruf, Germany. The company was founded in 1903 by August Storck, who later changed...
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  • lived. In 1690 Johann Christoph became organist at the Michaeliskirche at Ohrdruf. In October 1694 he married Dorothea von Hof. His mother Maria Elisabeth...
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    district in Germany between Crawinkel and Arnstadt and near to the town of Ohrdruf, was a scene of military construction under the National Socialist regime...
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    is accurate. On 4 April 1945 the U.S. 89th Infantry Division overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Buchenwald was partially evacuated by the Germans...
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    Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Ohrdruf. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088. After the Armistice with France...
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    brother, Johann Christoph Bach, the organist at St. Michael's Church in Ohrdruf, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. There he studied, performed, and copied music, including...
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    II as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp when he was age 20. A...
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  • – WWII: American troops liberate their first Nazi concentration camp, Ohrdruf extermination camp in Germany. The Soviet Red Army enters Bratislava and...
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    Rifle Division - Ohrdruf, GDR: - disbanded, 1992 117th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Meiningen) 120th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Ohrdruf) 172nd Guards Motor...
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  • April 12, 1945: Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton inspect an improvised crematory pyre at Ohrdruf concentration camp....
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    US soldiers view the corpses of prisoners which lie strewn along the road in the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp....
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  • liberation of twelve camps in Austria, Belgium, and Germany: Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonk, Hannover, Arnstadt, Nordhausen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald...
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    Bayern (Bavaria) Offenbach am Main (Hesse) Offenburg (Baden-Württemberg) Ohrdruf (Thuringia) Öhringen (Baden-Württemberg) Olbernhau (Saxony) Olching (Bavaria)...
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    36209 Klettbach 3621 Gotha 3622 Waltershausen 3623 Friedrichroda 3624 Ohrdruf 3625 36252 Tambach-Dietharz/Thür. Wald 36253 Georgenthal (Thüringen) 36254...
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    areas of Thuringia and Hesse, where he established the monasteries of Ohrdruf, Tauberbischofsheim, Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt. Charles, realising the potential...
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    (1985). "Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) Organist and Schul Collega in Ohrdruf, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bachs erster Lehrer". Bach-Jahrbuch. 71: 70...
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    eyewitnesses claim that the wagon had been destroyed by air attack near Ohrdruf while still in Thuringia in April 1944. Even so, it is generally believed...
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  • in and he died in Ohrdruf. In 1721 he followed his father, Johann Christoph Bach, in the post of organist at St. Michael in Ohrdruf. "Johann Bernhard...
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  • was shutting the factory at the end of July and relocating production to Ohrdruf, its Eastern German plant. This would result in a loss of more than 80...
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  • Division - the Ohrdruf concentration camp. It was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by the US Army (details and sources see Ohrdruf concentration...
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    This group consisted of longtime Flossenbürg prisoners, a group from Ohrdruf concentration camp, and the survivors of the death march from Buchenwald...
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    Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower toured the Merkers salt mine as well as the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and seeing the conditions of the camp firsthand caused...
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  • Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Ohrdruf. The village lies in the valley of the stream Schill (formerly Reed Bach)...
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    200 km north of Minsk, Belarus 1 July 1943 no no S III Wolfsturm, Olga etc. Ohrdruf, Germany Autumn 1944 (?) no no Siegfried Hagen Pullach, Germany (south...
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    in central and southwestern Thuringia (e.g. Arnstadt, Schmalkalden and Ohrdruf) are highly industrialised, whereas there are fewer industrial companies...
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