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    SS Augsburg was a cargo steamship that was built in Scotland in 1896 for the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft (DADG). She disappeared in...
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    Augsburg (UK: /ˈaʊɡzbɜːrɡ/ OWGZ-burg, US: /ˈɔːɡz-/ AWGZ-, German: [ˈaʊksbʊʁk] ; Swabian German: Ougschburg) is a city in the Bavarian part of Swabia, Germany...
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  • Emil Augsburg (born 1 May 1904 in Łódź; died 1981) was a German SS functionary and Nazi war criminal. Emil Augsburg was born in Congress Poland in 1904...
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  • frigate Augsburg (F213) of the Bremen class. SMS Augsburg, a Kolberg-class cruiser of the Imperial German Navy. SS Augsburg, a cargo steamship that disappeared at...
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  • service from 1962 to 1988 German frigate Augsburg (F213) a frigate in service from 1989 to 2015 SS Augsburg, a steamship that disappeared in 1912 Willard...
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    The Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra (German: Basilika SS. Ulrich and Afra) is a Catholic parish in Augsburg in Bavaria, which originated from the Roman...
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    Otto Thorbeck (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    August 1912 – 10 October 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi SS judge in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht. Thorbeck was born in Brieg, Silesia. In 1941, Sturmbannführer...
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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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    Jakob Grimminger (category Military personnel from Augsburg)
    April 1892 – 28 January 1969) was a German Nazi Party and Schutzstaffel (SS) member. As the official standard-bearer of the Blutfahne, an iconic flag...
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    Hans Loritz (category Military personnel from Augsburg)
    298668) and joined the SS one month later (membership number 4165). Following several personal clashes with the SA in Augsburg, the SS assigned Loritz to...
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    women to show their love for the Reich and join the SS-Gefolge ("SS-Retinue", a Schutzstaffel (SS) support and service organisation for women). Additionally...
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    commission court at Dachau in 1947, and another by the West German Judiciary at Augsburg in 1950–1951. Harold Kuhn and Richard Schneider, two U.S. Army lawyers...
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    Anita Bose Pfaff (category Academic staff of the University of Augsburg)
    Austrian economist, who has previously been a professor at the University of Augsburg as well as a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She...
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    USS Barracuda (SF-4/SS-163), lead ship of her class and first of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the barracuda...
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    The Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg (German: Fürstbistum Augsburg; Hochstift Augsburg) was one of the prince-bishoprics of the Holy Roman Empire, and belonged...
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    USS Bonita (SF-6/SS-165), a Barracuda-class submarine and one of the "V-boats," was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bonito...
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    USS Bass (SF-5/SS-164), a Barracuda-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the bass. Bass′s...
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    Augsburg Michelwerke, Burgau, Kaufering, Mühldorf, and Munich Agfa Camera Werke subcamps. In mid-April 1945, female subcamps at Kaufering, Augsburg,...
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    Rudolf Querner (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Orden unter dem Totenkopf - Die Geschichte der SS, Augsburg 1998, p. 493. Commandements régionaux de la S.S. Linde Apel, Hamburger Behörde für Kultur, Sport...
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  • September 1898 – 9 December 1947) was a German SS and police official during the Nazi era who served as SS and Police Leader (HSSPF). Höfle, the son of...
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    Titanic (redirect from SS Titanic)
    shore to ship. The White Star Line operated two tenders at Cherbourg: SS Traffic and SS Nomadic (Nomadic is the only surviving White Star Line ship). Both...
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    August Schmidhuber (category Military personnel from Augsburg)
    August Schmidhuber (8 May 1901 – 19 February 1947) was an SS-Brigadeführer who commanded two Waffen-SS divisions in occupied Yugoslavia and Albania during the...
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    SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. She is thought to have been the only ship in sight of the Titanic, or at least her rockets, during...
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    St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey, Augsburg (German: Kloster Sankt Ulrich und Afra Augsburg) is a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Ulrich and...
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    Alfons Rebane (category SS-Standartenführer)
    intelligence services and moved to Germany, where he stayed until his death in Augsburg in 1976. The 1999 reburial of Rebane in Estonia with state honors triggered...
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    Ulrich Greifelt (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    Höhne, H einz (1998). Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf - Die Geschichte der SS. Augsburg: Weltbild. ISBN 978-3893505494. Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Kulturlexikon...
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  • Wilhelm Gerstenmeier (category Military personnel from Augsburg)
    SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Gerstenmeier (17 January 1908 – 3 December 1944) was a German member of the SS (member number 13300) during World War II. He...
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    Wernher von Braun (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany...
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  • ability to choose his people's religion was established at the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore...
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    Sepp Dietrich (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    21 April 1966) was a German politician and a general in the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Nazi era. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to...
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