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    The Potsdam Giants was the name given to Prussian infantry regiment No 6. The regiment was composed of taller-than-average soldiers, and was founded in...
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    The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed...
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  • Division 45, Infantry Division Potsdam was built on the basis of the 85th Infantry Division (with 1053rd and 1054th regiments), which had been destroyed in...
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    previous Foot Guard Regiments, especially the 6th and the 15th Infantry Regiments of the Old Prussian Army, the former were the famous Potsdam Giants of Frederick...
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    Infantry Regiment 9 of Potsdam (I.R. 9) was an infantry regiment in Weimar Republic's Reichswehr and Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, descended from famed 1st...
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    remained in Potsdam by October of that year. A choir was formed from this group and officially affiliated with the King's 1st Prussian Guard Regiment. After...
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    Regiment Potsdam 64th Motor Rifle Regiment Potsdam 69th Motor Rifle Regiment Wünsdorf 83rd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment Krampnitz 219th Tank Regiment Elstal...
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    (German: Garnisonkirche) was a Protestant church in the historic centre of Potsdam. Built by order of King Frederick William I of Prussia according to plans...
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  • German silent drama film Potsdam Giants, the Prussian infantry regiment No 6, composed of taller-than-average soldiers Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, the main railway...
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    Uhlan Regiment (German: Königlich Preußisches 2. Garde-Ulanen Regiment) was a cavalry regiment of the Prussian Army formed in 1819 in Potsdam, Prussia...
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    Company) Regiment Sator (battalions Bählkow, Gorny & Spandau) Regiment Rohrde (Battalion Potsdam & Alarm? Battalion 67) Police Landschützen Battalion Bremen...
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  • List of Imperial German Uhlan Regiments Commander, 1903-06 A Pocket German Army Farwell, Byron (2001). The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare:...
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    Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (category Military personnel from Potsdam)
    Sanssouci Park, Potsdam. Hauptmann (captain) and commander of the Leibkompagnie (Life-company), 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß (1st Regiment of Foot Guards)...
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  • Portsmouth, where he was press-ganged into the Potsdam Guards. It is claimed that he was accompanied in the regiment by other tall soldiers from Ireland. One...
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    The Fachhochschule Potsdam is a University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, the capital of the German federal state of Brandenburg. It was founded in 1991...
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    Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (category People from Potsdam)
    Victoria-Louise of Prussia (born 1966). 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß (1st Regiment of Foot Guards), Potsdam: Leutnant à la suite, from January 29, 1897; Oberleutnant...
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    Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (category Military personnel from Potsdam)
    Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was born in the Marmorpalais of Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg, where his parents resided until his father...
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  • The Lehr Infantry Regiment (German: Lehr-Infanterie-Regiment) was an infantry regiment of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was formed on mobilisation...
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    headquartered in Berlin, with its units garrisoned in the city and nearby towns (Potsdam, Jüterbog, Döberitz). Unlike all other Corps of the Imperial German Army...
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    Infantry Regiment (aka "2nd St. Lawrence County Regiment", "New York Excelsior Rifle Legion", "Excelsior Rifle Blues", and "Potsdam Regiment") was an...
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    Cecilienhof (category Buildings and structures in Potsdam)
    Cecilienhof Palace (German: Schloss Cecilienhof) is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany, built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor...
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  • Infantry Regiment of the Guard (1. Garderegiment zu Fuss) in Potsdam. During the First World War, he was bandmaster of the 423rd German Infantry Regiment. In...
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  • 3rd Foot Guards (German Empire) (category Guards regiments of the Prussian Army)
    I. The regiment was disbanded in 1919 with the Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam bearing its tradition. List of Imperial German infantry regiments Graf von...
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    Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948) (category Military personnel from Potsdam)
    (2nd Lieutenant) à la suite 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß (1st Regiment of Foot Guards), Potsdam, 1894 à la suite, Grenadierregiment König Friedrich der Große...
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    July 1945 (Berlin time), the Potsdam Conference issued a declaration on the terms for the surrender of Japan. When the Potsdam Declaration was received in...
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    the United States called for the unconditional surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction"...
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  • Imperial German infantry regiments before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction...
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    remaining forces formed the 9th and 12th company of the Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam, carrying the Alexandriner tradition further in the new Reichswehr...
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    the south-west but met stiff resistance from 1st Ukrainian Front around Potsdam. Schörner's Army Group Centre was forced to withdraw from the Battle of...
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    Hermann Göring). It became the military base of the Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment 9 Potsdam and several barracks were erected in the vicinity. The Bornstedt Cemetery...
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