SS Hodder was a freight vessel built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1910. She was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for...
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Look up Hodder or hodder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hodder is an English surname, derived from the Old English word "hod", meaning hood. Therefore...
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The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (German: 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf") was an elite division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War...
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SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT, lit. 'SS Dispositional Troops') was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler...
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Amon Göth (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów...
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SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship...
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Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing...
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was demilitarised, 11 officers and 193 men of the militia left on the SS Hodder to England, where they formed the nucleus of the 11th (Royal Militia Island...
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56°44′N 14°5′W / 56.733°N 14.083°W / 56.733; -14.083 SS Athenia was a steam turbine transatlantic passenger liner built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1923...
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Evil: A History of the SS. New York: Caliber Printing. ISBN 978-0-451-23791-0. Williams, Andrew (2005). D-Day to Berlin. Hodder. ISBN 978-0-340-83397-1...
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SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester...
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RMS Mauretania (1906) (redirect from SS Mauretania (1906))
retired her; scrapping commenced in Rosyth, in 1935. In 1897 the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the largest and fastest ship in the world...
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Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall (redirect from Hodder Place)
1946. When Hodder Place was closed in 1970, the pupils were moved across to St Mary's Hall to form Hodder Playroom. As successor to Hodder Place, SMH...
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February 2005). Gangs: A Journey into the Heart of the British Underworld. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 9780340830529. In 1983 a Hells Angels party in Cookham...
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while the SS Panzer Corps was organized with the 1st SS, 2nd SS and 3rd SS Panzer Division. In early February, the combined strength of the SS Panzer Corps...
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The first attacks were made by the 2nd Panzer Division, SS Division Leibstandarte and the SS Division Das Reich, but they had only 75 Panzer IVs, 70 Panthers...
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move. Of Their Own Choice, Hodder and Stoughton, 1952 Duel of Wits, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953 The Spirit in the Cage, Hodder and Stoughton, 1954 By Moonlight...
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff (redirect from S.S. Wilhelm Gustloff)
Christopher; Miller, John; Payne, Ronald (1979). The Cruellest Night. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-22720-6. Gröner, Erich (1988). Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe...
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SS Caribou was a Newfoundland Railway passenger ferry that ran between Port aux Basques, in the Dominion of Newfoundland, and North Sydney, Nova Scotia...
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Press, ISBN 978-0-521-53751-3 Williams, Andrew (2005), D-Day to Berlin, Hodder, ISBN 978-0-340-83397-1 Zaloga, Steven J. (1982), 'The Polish Army, 1939–45...
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Thompson, Tony (4 August 2011). Outlaws: Inside the Hell's Angel Biker Wars. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 9781444716610. In late November 2006, the Outlaws became...
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Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol (category Nazi SS)
confrontation between the escorting SS and SD detachments and a force of the German Army (Heer) in Niederdorf. Ultimately, the SS/SD were faced with overwhelming...
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small fleets of ocean-going concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma. United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for concrete...
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wrecked there. Marsh, John and Lyman Anson (1958). Skeleton Coast. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 18°08′S 11°33′E / 18.133°S 11.550°E / -18.133; 11.550 v...
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SS Gothenburg was an iron-hulled sail- and steamship that was built in England in 1854 and sailed between England and Sweden until 1862. She then moved...
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Tears of the Desert: Surviving The Genocide - One Woman's True Story (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) The biography of Sudanese doctor Halima Bashir who suffered...
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Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1959). Prince Philip: A Family Portrait. London: Hodder and Stoughton. Brandreth, Gyles (2004). Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of...
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the same time, Hodder Place continued to educate those aged eight to eleven, until its closure and conversion into flats in 1970. Hodder Place pupils moved...
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Shot). Silver Medal of Military Valor. Bosworth, R.J.B. (2002). Mussolini, Hodder Arnold ISBN 0-340-73144-3 Ciano, Fabrizio (1991). Quando il nonno fece fucilare...
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