SS Kielce was a Polish-operated cargo ship. She was a Type N3-S-A2 steamship, built in the United States in 1943 as SS Edgar Wakeman. In 1946, while laden...
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Kielce Voivodeship, a former unit of administrative division and local government in Poland SS Kielce, Polish-operated cargo ship Search for "Kielce"...
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Kielce (Polish: [ˈkʲɛlt͡sɛ] ; Yiddish: קעלץ, romanized: Keltz) is a city in south-central Poland and the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. In...
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freighter carrying grenades and munitions, in the harbour of Havana, Cuba. SS Kielce, shipwreck near Folkestone containing explosives that detonated during...
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(1,600 ft) of the wreck. SS Kielce – 1946 shipwreck in the English Channel that exploded during a salvage operation in 1967 SS Richard Montgomery – 1944...
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contains 1,400 tons of explosives. When the deeper World War II wreck of the SS Kielce, carrying a much smaller load of explosives, exploded in 1967, it produced...
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The SS Richard Montgomery is a wrecked American Liberty cargo ship that was built during World War II. She was named after Richard Montgomery, an Irish...
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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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The Kielce Ghetto (Polish: getto w Kielcach, German: Ghetto von Kielce) was a Jewish World War II ghetto created in 1941 by the Schutzstaffel (SS) in...
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Rudolf Höss (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the...
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List of German divisions in World War II (redirect from Waffen-SS order of battle)
article lists divisions of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) and Waffen-SS active during World War II, including divisions of the Heer (army), Luftwaffe...
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The Kielce dialect (Polish: gwara kielecka) belongs to the Lesser Poland dialect group and is located in the part of Poland. It borders the Masovian Borderland...
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cargo ship. Type R ship R1-M-AV3, refrigerated cargo ships Examples: SS Kielce Type N3-S-A2 USS Corduba a R1-M-AV3 Type R ship USS Kerstin R1-M-AV3 USS Lucidor...
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France. It was redesignated as an SS unit in early 1943. The 4th Police Regiment was formed on 16 September 1939 in Kielce, Poland, from elements of Police...
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refusal of many non-Jews to return property, and violent attacks such as the Kielce pogrom convinced many survivors to leave eastern Europe. Antisemitism was...
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List of German brigades in World War II (redirect from List of Waffen-SS brigades)
all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally...
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Hermann Fegelein (category SS-Gruppenführer)
October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law...
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Operation Tempest (section Radom–Kielce)
the Kielce – Radom area to march towards Warsaw and join the Warsaw Uprising. Operation Revenge, as it was called, resulted in the creation of Kielce Corps...
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2024 Polish local elections (section Kielce)
Zielona Góra, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Kraków, Rzeszów. Olsztyn, Poznań and Kielce were to undergo a runoff. In the second round of elections held in 748 cities...
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governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto...
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The Soviet units made rapid progress, moving to cut off the defenders at Kielce. The armored reserves of the 4th Panzer Army's central corps, the XXIV Panzer...
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II RP (Chapter 3.3)" (PDF). Totalna Wojna Informacyjna XX Wieku a II RP. Kielce: Wydział Zarządzania i Administracji Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej im. J...
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Ardeatine massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
War as a reprisal for the Via Rasella attack in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen the previous day. Subsequently, the Ardeatine Caves...
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and until 1945, the town was administratively tied with Lesser Poland's Kielce. It is located along the Warsaw–Vienna railway, and is a road hub, on the...
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Szarajówka massacre (58–67 Poles, including women and children) 23 May, Kielce cemetery massacre (45 children) 24 June, Majdan Nowy massacre (28–36 Poles)...
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pacification, the commander of the Sicherheitsdienst and security police unit in Kielce, SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Essig, sent a telegraphy to Radom with a brief description...
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(beehive Grain) Southern Poland Department (Wydział Polski Południowej, P) Kielce – ul "Skała" (beehive Rock) Częstochowa – ul "Warta" (beehive Warta) Kraków...
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divisions belonging to Operational Group Kielce and broke through towards the important industrial center of Kielce. Afterwards, Hoth's XV Motorised Corps...
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000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police battalions, and the Ukrainian Sonderdienst on 3–4 November...
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Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and...
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