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    Hillersleben is a village and a former municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. A large proving ground for artillery operated there...
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  • Regiment (Hillersleben) 112th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (Hillersleben) 73rd Separate Guards Communications Battalion (Hillersleben) 52nd Separate...
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  • of German scientists at the German Army Artillery proving grounds at Hillersleben began to expand on Oberth's idea of creating a superweapon that could...
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    Germans). On 19 July 1942 the battery was ordered to ship their weapons to Hillersleben for refurbishment. One dud shell was recovered by the Soviets and flown...
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    not be met. Krupp built a test model in late 1939 and sent it to the Hillersleben proving ground for testing. Penetration was tested on this occasion....
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    Altengrabow 12th Guards Tank Division – Neuruppin 47th Guards Tank Division – Hillersleben 8th Guards Order of Lenin Army – Weimar-Nohra 27th Guards Motor Rifle...
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  • John Frederick Cammerhoff (28 July 1721, in Hillersleben, Germany - 28 April 1751) was a Moravian bishop and missionary. He was privately tutored at home...
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    (today's Czech Republic), the Gössler wall, Toplitzsee (Austria) and at the Hillersleben test facility (Germany). They were regarded as a German secret weapon...
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  • Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. It was ultimately relocated to Hillersleben as part of the 3rd Shock Army (later the 3rd Army) and served there with...
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    built without more tests. Coenders constructed a full-calibre gun at the Hillersleben proving ground near Magdeburg but, by the end of 1943, he had encountered...
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