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    Neuhof; the 4th Guards Tank Army's 68th Guards Tank Brigade stood near Kummersdorf Gut; and the 3rd Guards Army's 25th Tank Corps near Duben. Both the 3rd...
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    and Dornberger to join their secret army program at Kummersdorf-West in 1932. Von Braun dreamed of conquering outer space with rockets and did not initially...
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    FDA. On 16 July 1934, in Kummersdorf, Germany, a propellant tank containing an experimental monopropellant mixture consisting of hydrogen peroxide and ethanol...
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    Wernher von Braun (category Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    rocket test site at Kummersdorf. Von Braun received his doctorate in physics (aerospace engineering) on 27 July 1934, from the University of Berlin for a thesis...
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    book Achtung – Panzer! and upon observing armored field exercises at Kummersdorf, he remarked, "That is what I want – and that is what I will have". Guderian...
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    Latvian Division Kampfgruppe Moltke (1 Begleit esquadron, 1 panzer comp. "Kummersdorf" w. 12 tanks, 1 panzerjäger comp. "Dresden" w. 6 guns and 250 soldiers)...
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    Matilda II (category Interwar tanks of the United Kingdom)
    put into service by the Germans. Several vehicles were transported to Kummersdorf where they were evaluated, including trials by live fire. The German...
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    Stahlhelm (category Combat helmets of Germany)
    included testing a selection of German and Allied headgear, the first stahlhelm were tested in November 1915 at the Kummersdorf Proving Ground and then field-tested...
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    to the NKVD the complete work of the Gestapo. In 1935 Lehmann attended a rocket engine ground firing test in Kummersdorf that was attended by Wernher von...
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  • 197th Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    small groups and then in entire columns, to the Staatsforst Kummersdorf woods. By the end of the day the breakout had again been halted by reinforcements...
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  • 253rd Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    small groups and then in entire columns, to the Staatsforst Kummersdorf woods. By the end of the day the breakout had again been halted by reinforcements...
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    Heinkel He 112 (category World War II fighter aircraft of Germany)
    after a total of only 98 aircraft, 85 of those being the B series models. In 1931, the Army Weapons Office testing ground at Kummersdorf had taken over...
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    Alfred Klose (category Academic staff of the University of Greifswald)
    was the laboratory manager of a test center of the Army Weapons Office for rocket tests in Gottow and at the Kummersdorf firing range near Luckenwalde...
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