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    TSS Vienna was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1894. The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull for the Great Eastern...
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  • C950558. SS Vienna (1873), a bulk freighter built in 1873, Official No. US25875. SS Vienna (1894) a Great Eastern Railway ferry SS Vienna (1929), a London...
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    named Amsterdam, Berlin, and Vienna to publicise some of the rail connections from the Hook of Holland. Berlin was built in 1894 by Earles Shipbuilding and...
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    Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between the years of 1900–1907. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint the ceiling...
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    the railway grew a new wagon works was built at Temple Mills in 1896. In 1894 a carriage painting facility was opened at Felixstowe Beach station which...
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  • This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste...
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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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  • Anton Piëch (category SS personnel)
    Piëch was born 21 September 1894 in Vienna, the son of lawyer Anton Paul Piëch. He studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate of...
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    Deutschmeister-Palais (category Palaces in Vienna)
    was the seat of the Viennese SS headquarters, then from 1945 to 1974 it served as the Federal Police Department in Vienna. Today it holds the offices of...
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  • built by John Brown on Clydebank to replace a ship of the same name Vienna of 1894. She was one of an order for three ships, the others being Prague and...
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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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    Günther von Reibnitz (category SS officers)
    First World War. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and was a member of the SS Cavalry Corps. Reibnitz married four times and was the father of Princess...
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  • prisoners, who were unable to walk. 2 April: Vienna-Saurerwerke subcamp dissolved. Prisoners are evacuated by the SS in a death march to the Steyr-Münichholz...
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    Waffen-SS, in units of the SS Division Wiking. Most of these volunteers served as motorized infantry in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German:...
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    Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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    Karl Maria Wiligut (category SS-Brigadeführer)
    movement, eventually joining the SS after being recruited by Heinrich Himmler. Karl Maria Wiligut was born in Vienna on December 10, 1866, into a Catholic...
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    13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi...
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    Venice (1909 at the Burgtheater). In 1895, she went to the Volkstheater in Vienna and in 1903 joined the Burgtheater ensemble, where she received the title...
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    Hanns Hörbiger (category Engineers from Vienna)
    an Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol. He took part in the construction of the Budapest subway and in 1894 invented a new type of valve...
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  • József Grassy (category Hungarian Waffen-SS personnel)
    Vienna on 15 January 1944 and requested political asylum. On 1 March 1944, Grassy joined the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen with the rank of SS-Brigadeführer...
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  • This is a list of notable people from Vienna, Austria. Carlo Abarth (1908–1979), Italian race car driver and tuner. Gustav Abel (1902–1963), film architect...
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  • films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene. 1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106. 1908 – The...
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    Kurt Mälzer (category 1894 births)
    Kurt Mälzer (2 August 1894 – 24 March 1952) was a German general of the Luftwaffe and a war criminal during World War II. In 1943, Mälzer was appointed...
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    company started conducting pleasure cruises in 1906 with SS Bohemia followed in 1907 by SS Thalia which was built by William Denny and Brothers in 1886...
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  • Postbank, and Deutsche Telekom. Between 1894 and 1938, a daily newspaper called Reichspost was issued in Vienna, Austria.[citation needed] During the Second...
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    Johann Strauss II (category Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery)
    frequently with "ß" (Strauß), Strauss himself wrote his name with a long "s" and a round "s" (Strauſs), which was a replacement form for the Fraktur-ß used in...
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    Meinoud Rost van Tonningen (category SS personnel)
    Meinoud Marinus Rost van Tonningen (19 February 1894 – 6 June 1945) was a Dutch politician of the National Socialist Movement (NSB). During the German...
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    Electric tramway lines in the Austrian Empire: Austria: Gmunden (1894); Linz, Vienna (1897); Graz (1898); Trieste (1900); Ljubljana (1901); Innsbruck...
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  • self-adopted nickname.) During this time, she was cared for by former members of the SS and survivors of her brother's inner circle. In February 1959, she agreed...
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    (1896–1987), actor Christiane Hörbiger (1938–2022), actress Paul Hörbiger (1894–1981), actor Maria Hofstätter (born 1964), actress Boris Kodjoe (born 1973)...
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