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    The Gau Upper Silesia (German: Gau Oberschlesien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945 in the Upper Silesia part of the Prussian...
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    Silesia. From 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party for this area. The Gau was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia on...
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    Fritz Bracht (18 January 1899 – 9 May 1945) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia. After training as a gardener, Bracht entered military service in...
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    Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia in 1941. The majority of the former Gau became...
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    he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933. An SA-Gruppenführer...
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    Upper Silesia (‹See TfM›Polish: Górny Śląsk ; Silesian: Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Czech: Horní Slezsko; ‹See TfM›German: Oberschlesien ; Silesian German:...
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    Gauliga Schlesien (category Football competitions in Silesia)
    administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Silesia, later subdivided into Gau Upper Silesia and Gau Lower Silesia, replaced the Prussian provinces. After...
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    joined the French Resistance from where he joined the Polish Army.(Gau Upper Silesia) Leon Piesowocki - In 1943, he was called up to serve in the Wehrmacht...
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    Josef Wagner (Gauleiter) (category Politicians from the Province of Silesia)
    1945) was from 1931 the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South and, as of December 1934, also of Gau Silesia. In 1941 he was dismissed from his offices...
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    Karl Hanke (category Politicians from the Province of Silesia)
    also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he...
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    Franziskus Eisenbach (category People from the Province of Upper Silesia)
    bishop of Mainz from 1988 to 2002. Eisenbach was born in Groß Strehlitz, Upper Silesia, on 1 May 1943. He was consecrated as a priest by Hermann Volk, Bishop...
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    were incorporated to pre-existing bordering gaus of East Prussia (as in the case of Zichenau) and Upper Silesia (as in the case of the Silesian voivodeship...
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  • first Deputy Gauleiter of the recently established Gau Upper Silesia where he also served as Gau chairman (Gauobmann) for the German Labour Front administration...
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    Germany. Czech Silesia with Slezská Ostrava was incorporated into the Sudetenland Gau, while Hultschin was incorporated into Upper Silesia province. With...
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    Auschwitz was annexed to the German Reich, as part of first Gau Silesia and from 1941 Gau Upper Silesia. The camp at Auschwitz was established in April 1940...
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    and Silesia (later Upper Silesia), while from others new Reichsgaue Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland were constituted. Wartheland was the only Gau constituted...
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    The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...
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    Empire Died 14 August 1941(1941-08-14) (aged 47) Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gau Upper Silesia, Nazi Germany Venerated in Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheran...
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    Wielkopolska, as well as territories divided after plebiscites such as Upper Silesia, as well as a large area east of these territories, including the city...
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    known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region...
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    Edith Stein (category People from the Province of Silesia)
    August 1942. Edith Stein was born in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), Lower Silesia, into an observant Jewish family. She was the youngest of 11 children and...
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    Hans-Jochen Jaschke (category People from the Province of Upper Silesia)
    was born in Beuthen, Gau Upper Silesia, on 29 September 1941, the son of a physician. After the family was expelled from Silesia when he was age 4 he...
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    Deputy Gauleiter to Helmuth Brückner in Gau Silesia. In addition, he became the Special Plenipotentiary to Silesia of the SA Supreme Leadership. In April...
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    for the Weser-Ems Gau throughout this time. On 10 July 1934, Herzog was assigned the leadership of the SA-Gruppe Schlesien (Silesia), headquartered in...
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    tripoint of Upper Lusatia with the historical region of Lower Silesia to the east and Bohemia to the south. All major rivers in the Upper Lusatia flow...
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    of some, like Silesia and Warmia. Among them, only Warmia, Powiśle, southern Masuria, as well as Upper, Cieszyn and Eastern Lower Silesia retained sizeable...
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    Helmuth Brückner (category Politicians from the Province of Silesia)
    the NSDAP in Silesia; on 15 March 1925 he officially joined the refounded NSDAP (number 2,023) and was appointed Gauleiter for Gau Silesia. It was at this...
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    Oppeln (region) (category Province of Upper Silesia)
    Province of Silesia, from 1813 to 1945, which covered the south-eastern part of Silesia. The capital of the Regierungsbezirk was the Upper Silesian city...
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    Blachownia was directly annexed into the Third Reich, as part of Gau Upper Silesia (see Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany). The Germans changed its...
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    County was directly annexed into Nazi Germany, and then made part of Gau Upper Silesia. The Germans operated the E755 forced labour subcamp of the Stalag...
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