Ohrdruf (German: [ˈoːɐ̯ˌdʁʊf] ) is a small town in the district of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It lies some 30 km southwest of Erfurt at the...
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Ohrdruf was a German forced labor and concentration camp located near Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration...
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St. Michaelis Kirche (St. Michael's Church) in the Thuringian town of Ohrdruf was the church where Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest brother, Johann Christoph...
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Ohrdruf is a town in the German state of Thuringia. Ohrdruf may also refer to: Ohrdruf concentration camp Ohrdruf Priory Michaeliskirche (Ohrdruf) This...
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Ohrdruf Priory or Karmel St. Elija, Ohrdruf, is a Carmelite monastery at Ohrdruf in Thuringia, Germany. It is the latest in a series of religious foundations...
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camp he helped liberate as Auschwitz instead of Ohrdruf. In 2009, Payne spoke about this experience: Ohrdruf was in that string of towns going across, south...
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lived. In 1690 Johann Christoph became organist at the Michaeliskirche at Ohrdruf. In October 1694 he married Dorothea von Hof. His mother Maria Elisabeth...
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district in Germany between Crawinkel and Arnstadt and near to the town of Ohrdruf, was a scene of military construction under the National Socialist regime...
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Rhine-Westphalia, with another located in Skanderborg, Denmark, and one in Ohrdruf, Germany. Its among the 15 biggest manufacturers of candy worldwide. The...
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Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town Ohrdruf. Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088. After the Armistice with France...
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is accurate. On 4 April 1945 the U.S. 89th Infantry Division overran Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Buchenwald was partially evacuated by the Germans...
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Rifle Division - Ohrdruf, GDR: - disbanded, 1992 117th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Meiningen) 120th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (Ohrdruf) 172nd Guards Motor...
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Infantry Division. Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the Ohrdruf forced labor camp. There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly...
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89th Infantry Division, which liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald, a fact Barack Obama has referred to in speeches...
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brother, Johann Christoph Bach, the organist at St. Michael's Church in Ohrdruf, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. There he studied, performed, and copied music, including...
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April 12, 1945: Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George S. Patton inspect an improvised crematory pyre at Ohrdruf concentration camp....
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US soldiers view the corpses of prisoners which lie strewn along the road in the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp....
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liberation of twelve camps in Austria, Belgium, and Germany: Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonk, Hannover, Arnstadt, Nordhausen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald...
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in central and southwestern Thuringia (e.g. Arnstadt, Schmalkalden and Ohrdruf) are highly industrialised, whereas there are fewer industrial companies...
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areas of Thuringia and Hesse, where he established the monasteries of Ohrdruf, Tauberbischofsheim, Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt. Charles, realising the potential...
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Bayern (Bavaria) Offenbach am Main (Hesse) Offenburg (Baden-Württemberg) Ohrdruf (Thuringia) Öhringen (Baden-Württemberg) Olbernhau (Saxony) Olching (Bavaria)...
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Division - the Ohrdruf concentration camp. It was the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by the US Army (details and sources see Ohrdruf concentration...
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in and he died in Ohrdruf. In 1721 he followed his father, Johann Christoph Bach, in the post of organist at St. Michael in Ohrdruf. "Johann Bernhard...
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eyewitnesses claim that the wagon had been destroyed by air attack near Ohrdruf while still in Thuringia in April 1944. Even so, it is generally believed...
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Otto Stichling (10 April 1866, Ohrdruf - 28 April 1912, Berlin) was a German sculptor in the Art Nouveau style. He was the illegitimate son of Auguste...
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Commander-in-Chief of all Allied Forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, witnesses the corpses found at Ohrdruf forced labor camp in May 1945....
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Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower toured the Merkers salt mine as well as the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and seeing the conditions of the camp firsthand caused...
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Grenzschutz Ost ("Bavarian Free Corps for Border Patrol East"), formed in Ohrdruf in April 1919, which finally overturned the Munich Soviet Republic by force...
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200 km north of Minsk, Belarus 1 July 1943 no no S III Wolfsturm, Olga etc. Ohrdruf, Germany Autumn 1944 (?) no no Siegfried Hagen Pullach, Germany (south...
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(1985). "Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) Organist and Schul Collega in Ohrdruf, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach's erster Lehrer". Bach-Jahrbuch. 71: 70...
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