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    (which included the American 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944. Clipper was the preliminary to a wider...
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    Geilenkirchen itself, which was surrounded. After driving off some counter-attacks by 15th Panzer Grenadier Division during the night, Geilenkirchen was...
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    According to this law inter alia the former districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg were to be merged on 1 January 1972. Erkelenz lost its status...
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    from 1957 to 1976, where he initially represented the constituency of Geilenkirchen -Erkelenz - Jülich, later the constituency of Heinsberg. From 27 February...
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