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Strasshof
Strasshof an der Nordbahn (meaning ''Strasshof at the Northern Railway (Austria), Northern railway''; Central Bavarian: ''Strasshof aun da Noadbauh'') is a satellite town 25 km east of Vienna, Austria. A historical locomotive built by LOFAG is displayed in the town. Geography Strasshof an der Nordbahn lies in Marchfeld in Lower Austria. About 21.08 percent of the municipality is forested. History Strasshof had about 50 inhabitants in 1900, and a railroad yard functioned from 1908 to 1959. In 1944, about 75 percent of 21,000 Hungarian Jews deported from a Nazi concentration camps, concentration camp at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann. On 2 December 1944 the marshalling yard in "Straszhof" was targeted in a Strategic bombing during World War II, United States Army Air Forces bombing by the 47th Bombardment Wing (World War II), 47th Bombardment Wing. There was solid overcast over the city causing the ...
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Gänserndorf District
Bezirk Gänserndorf () is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. The Marchfeld lies in it. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Aderklaa * Andlersdorf *'' Angern an der March'' **Angern an der March, Grub an der March, Mannersdorf an der March, Ollersdorf, Stillfried *''Auersthal'' *'' Bad Pirawarth'' **Bad Pirawarth, Kollnbrunn *Deutsch-Wagram *'' Drösing'' **Drösing, Waltersdorf an der March *'' Dürnkrut'' **Dürnkrut, Waidendorf *'' Ebenthal'' *'' Eckartsau'' **Eckartsau, Kopfstetten, Pframa, Wagram an der Donau, Witzelsdorf *'' Engelhartstetten'' **Engelhartstetten, Groißenbrunn, Loimersdorf, Markthof, Schloßhof, Stopfenreuth * Gänserndorf * Glinzendorf * Groß-Enzersdorf **Franzensdorf, Groß-Enzersdorf, Matzneusiedl, Mühlleiten, Oberhausen, Probstdorf, Rutzendorf, Schönau an der Donau, ...
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Telephone Numbers In Austria
Telephone numbers in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ... have no standard lengths for either area codes or subscriber numbers, meaning that some subscriber numbers may be as short as three digits. Larger towns have shorter area codes permitting longer subscriber numbers in that area. Examples of lengths of telephone numbers Area codes Prefix code with 0 when dialed within Austria: Mobile phone codes In ascending numeric order: *1 Telering was bought by T-Mobile in 2005. As of 2006, Telering uses the network-infrastructure of T-Mobile. As a special requirement of the European commission, many of the former transmitters and frequencies previously operated by Telering were given to Orange and Drei. *2 BoB is a discount service of A1. yesss! was a disc ...
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Marchfeld
The Marchfeld () is a 900 km² sedimentary basin in Lower Austria, that borders Vienna to the east. Geologically, the Marchfeld constitutes the northern half of the Vienna Basin, which spans about 60 kilometers along the Danube. The Marchfeld traditionally served as Vienna’s vegetable supplier and Austria’s breadbasket. Economically, it has been significant since the 1930s due to its oil and natural gas deposits. Architecturally, the region is notable for its Baroque churches, town squares, and the Marchfeld castles. Geography The region takes its name from the river March (''Morava'') in the east (derived from "Mark", meaning "border"), which serves as Austria's border with Slovakia. The term "Marchfeld" thus means "territory/plain by the border river". The southern boundary of the Marchfeld is formed by the Danube and its floodplains (e.g., the Lobau), while in the north, it is framed by the hilly landscape of the Weinviertel, stretching from the Bisamberg near Vienna to ...
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Municipality (Austria)
In the Republic of Austria, the municipality (, sometimes also ) is the administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city. The municipality has municipal corporation, corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary democracy, parliamentary-style representative democracy: a municipal council () elected through a form of party-list proportional representation, party-list system enacts municipal laws, a municipal executive board () and a mayor (, grammatical gender, fem. ) appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently (January 1, 2020) partitioned into 2,095 municipalities, ranging in population from about fifty (the village of Gramais in Tyrol (state), Tyrol) to almost two million (the city of Vienna). There is no unincorporated area, unincorporated territory in Austria. Basics The existence of municipalities and their role as carriers of the right to self-administration are guaranteed by the ...
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Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann ( ;"Eichmann"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution, Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-''Obergruppenführer'' Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and extermination camp, Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies of World War II, Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down an ...
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Nazi Concentration Camps
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (), including subcamp (SS), subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the Night of Long Knives, 1934 purge of the Sturmabteilung, SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the Schutzstaffel, SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Initially, most prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany, but as time went on different groups were arrested, including "habitual criminals", "Black triangle (badge), asocials", and Jews. After the beginning of World War II, people from German-occupied Europe were imprisoned in the concentration camps. About 1.65 million people were registered prisoners in the camps, of whom about Holocaust victims, a million died during their imprisonment. ...
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Aid And Rescue Committee
The Aid and Rescue Committee, or ''Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht'' (''Vaada'' for short; name in ) was a small committee of Zionists in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944–1945, who helped Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust during the German occupation of that country.Bauer, Yehuda (1994). ''Jews for Sale: Nazi–Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945''. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 152. The Committee was also known as the Rescue and Relief Committee, and the Budapest Rescue Committee. The main personalities of the ''Vaada'' were Ottó Komoly, president; Rudolf Kasztner, executive vice-president; Samuel Springmann, treasurer; and Joel Brand, who was in charge of ''tijul'' or the underground rescue of Jews.Hilberg, Raul. ''The Destruction of the European Jews'', Yale University Press, 2003, p. 901. Other members were Hansi Brand (Joel Brand's wife); Ernő Szilágyi from the left-wing ''Hashomer Hatzair'';Bauer 1994, p. 153. Peretz Revesz; Andras Biss; a ...
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Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ...
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Turner Publishing
Turner Publishing Company is an American independent book publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee. The company is in the top 101 independent publishing companies in the U.S. as compiled by Bookmarket.com, and has been named four times to ''Publishers Weekly''s Fastest Growing Publishers List. History Turner Publishing Company was founded in 1984 in Paducah, Kentucky, as a publisher of books. From 1984 to 2005 the company published specialty and commemorative titles focusing on history. During this period, Turner Publishing Company produced over 500 titles in the categories of military history, local history, and organizational history, including: History of the FDNY (New York City Fire Department) and History of the 101st Airborne Division. In 2002 the company was sold to new management and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Turner launched its move into trade publishing with a program of regional history titles in 2005. This series of local history photography books, called "His ...
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Strategic Bombing During World War II
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from Air supremacy#World War II, tactical air power. During World War II, many military strategists of air power believed that air forces could win major victories by attacking industrial and political infrastructure, rather than purely military targets. Strategic bombing often involved bombing areas inhabited by Non-combatant, civilians, and some campaigns were deliberately designed to target civilian populations in order to terrorism, terrorize them or to weaken their morale. International law at the outset of World War II did not specifically forbid the aerial bombardment of cities – despite the prior occurrence of such bombing during World War I (1914–1918), the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and t ...
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47th Bombardment Wing (World War II)
The 47th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force pilot training wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, near Del Rio, Texas. It is one of five pilot training units in the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command which conducts joint specialized undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and allied nation air forces utilizing the T-38C, T-6A and T-1A aircraft. Units * 47th Operations Group (Tail Code: XL) ** 47th Operations Support Squadron ** 85th Flying Training Squadron (T-6A) "Tigers" ** 86th Flying Training Squadron (T-1A) "Rio Lobos" ** 87th Flying Training Squadron (T-38C) "Red Bulls" ** 434th Flying Training Squadron (T-6A) "Red Devils" * 47th Medical Group ** 47th Medical Operations Squadron ** 47th Medical Support Squadron * 47th Mission Support Group ** 47th Security Forces Squadron "Amistad Defenders" * 340th Flying Training Group (AFRC) ** 96th Flying Training Squadron (T-38C, T-1A) Aircraft ...
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