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    Camp in a disused factory. Magdeburg. Camp on an island in the river. Torgau. Two camps in Bruckenkopf Barracks and in Fort Zinna. Mannschaftslager Gardelegen...
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    Moritzburg Schlossbetrieb Moritzburg Dresden Fortress and Brühl's Terrace Festung Dresden und Brühlsche Terrasse Schlossbetrieb Staatliche Schlösser und...
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  • described in German as Burg (castle), Schloss (palace or stately home), Festung (fort/fortress), Herrenhaus (manor house) and Palais/Palast (palace). After...
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  • examination in July 1932 and served his legal clerkship in Staßfurt, Magdeburg, Torgau and Naumburg. He completed his dissertation on the "instruction right of...
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  • Command. This put him on 25 March 1945 as an assessor in the court martial in Torgau against the General der Panzertruppe Walter Fries. Contrary to Hitler's...
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  • established as the Museum Festung Dresden https://web.archive.org/web/20160509160153/http://www.festung-dresden.de/de/festung_dresden/museum/ below the...
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    Charles V repeatedly outlawed the unruly town, which had joined the League of Torgau and the Schmalkaldic League. As it had not accepted the Augsburg Interim...
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    safely ride or go out of his house") and was therefore "zu einem bau und festung höchlich verursacht" ("compelled to a construction and fortification in...
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  • occupied Europe for the sake of making room for people of German blood. Festung Europa ('Fortress Europe') – all territory within German-occupied Europe...
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    commissioned officer rank). In 1760 he was a participant in the Battle of Torgau. He was lightly wounded and his horse was killed. The Prince of Saxony's...
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