Rhineland was a 1,312 GRT cargo steamship that Howaldtswerke of Kiel, Germany built in 1938 for Argo Line, Bremen. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine...
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Germany from 1933 to 1936 SS Rheinland a number of ships with this name SMS Rheinland, a German battleship, 1908–1922 SS Rhineland (1938) a British cargo ship...
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The remilitarisation of the Rhineland (German: Rheinlandbesetzung, pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯nlantˌbəˈzɛtsʊŋ]) began on 7 March 1936, when military forces of Nazi...
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Wolfgang Abel (category SS personnel)
Volk", with the title "Bastarde am Rhein" (Rhineland Bastards). In 1935 he joined the SS and became part of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA)...
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Kristallnacht (redirect from November pogrom of 1938)
Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The...
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Anatomy of the SS State. New York: Walker and Company. ISBN 978-0-00211-026-6. Edmonds, James (1987). The Occupation of the Rhineland. London: HMSO....
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Richard Hildebrandt (category SS and Police Leaders)
1951) was a German Nazi politician and SS-Obergruppenführer. During the Second World War, he served as a Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Nazi-occupied...
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encouraged harassment, and orchestrated a nationwide pogrom in November 1938. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began...
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camp (German: SS-Sonderlager Hinzert or Konzentrationslager Hinzert) was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, 30...
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Wehrmacht (section Coexistence with the Waffen-SS)
However, on 17 August 1938, Hitler codified the role of the SS and the army in order to end the feud between the two. The arming of the SS was to be "procured...
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Robert Ley (category Members of the Reichstag 1936–1938)
number 18,441). He was named Deputy Gauleiter of the Southern Rhineland (later, Rhineland) that month, and was promoted to Gauleiter on 17 July. In September...
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Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia,...
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Anschluss (redirect from German annexation in 1938)
explicitly excluded. Prior to annexing Austria in 1938, Nazi Germany had remilitarized the Rhineland, and the Saar region was returned to Germany after...
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be a habitational name from a number of places in Westphalia and the Rhineland, or an occupational name derived from Middle High German rām "soot", or...
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Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful...
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Karl Gutenberger (category SS and Police Leaders)
Leader of SS-Oberabschnittt (Main District) "West" with his headquarters in Düsseldorf. His jurisdiction comprised most of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia...
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Reinhard Spitzy (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
November 2010 in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer) was an Austrian SS Hauptsturmführer (from 1938), Nazi official and diplomat. He was a personal assistant to...
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Joseph Goebbels (category Members of the Reichstag 1936–1938)
offices. He was also put to work as party speaker and representative for Rhineland-Westphalia. Strasser founded the National Socialist Working Association...
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Hartmann Lauterbacher (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
Oberpräsident of the Province of Hanover and an Obergruppenführer of both the SS and the SA in Nazi Germany. Tried and acquitted of war crimes after the Second...
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Carl Zenner (category SS and Police Leaders)
Carl Peter Zenner (11 June 1899 – 16 June 1969) was an SS-Brigadeführer who served as SS and Police Leader in Generalbezirk Weißruthenien during the Second...
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Nazi Germany (section SA and SS)
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler from 1929, the SS had over a quarter million members by 1938. Himmler initially envisioned the SS as being an elite group of guards...
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then been the director of the German Red Cross for Hesse, Nassau, the Rhineland and Westphalia. Herr and Frau Scholtz-Klink informed the French that they...
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Austria within Nazi Germany (category 1938 establishments in Austria)
Austria was part of Nazi Germany from 13 March 1938 (an event known as the Anschluss) until 27 April 1945, when Allied-occupied Austria declared independence...
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Munich Agreement (redirect from Munich Pact of 1938)
The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy...
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Albert Hoffmann (Nazi) (category SS-Gruppenführer)
Allgemeine-SS (membership number 278,225) as an SS-Obersturmfuhrer assigned to the SS Main Office. After the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938, Hoffmann...
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Konstantin von Neurath (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) and the remilitarisation of the Rhineland. Neurath was also made a member of Hans Frank's Academy for German Law...
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der Ehre, 8–14 September). The remilitarization of the demilitarized Rhineland in March 1936 constituted the restoration of German honour in the eyes...
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Rhineland was demilitarized and occupied by the French Army, which was in a strong position to launch an offensive deep into Germany. The Rhineland,...
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Frankenthal (category Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate)
German: Frongedahl) is a town in southwestern Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Frankenthal was first mentioned in 772. In 1119 an Augustinian...
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Fritz Weitzel (category SS and Police Leaders)
pp. 167–198. Köhler, Thomas: Himmler's extended arm in Rhineland and Westphalia. The Higher SS and Police Leaders West, in: Dams, Carsten/Dönecke, Klaus/Köhler...
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