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The South Side German Historic District is a neighborhood within Quincy, Illinois, United States just south of downtown. The neighborhood includes most of Quincy's rich German architecture. The region is also widely known as "Calftown", named for the number of calves once owned by its inhabitants. [1]
Japanese prisoners of war camps were located in Wisconsin and Iowa while Italian prisoners were kept in Utah, Texas, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, and California. [4] One escaped German prisoner of war was never captured. Georg Gärtner turned himself on September 11, 1985. He was the last of 2,000 escaped prisoners to be ...
Herman Karl Lamm (April 19, 1890 – December 16, 1930 [1] [2] [3]), known as Baron Lamm, was a German-American bank robber.A former Prussian Army soldier who immigrated to the United States, Lamm believed a heist required all the planning of a military operation.
Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Center [1] and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte, Ipava, and Table Grove in Fulton County, Illinois. [2] Construction began on 17 September 1942, [2] and the camp opened on 16 April 1943, [1] with an official dedication 14 July 1943. [2]
Robert Paul Prager (February 28, 1888 – April 5, 1918) was a German immigrant who was lynched in the United States during World War I due to growing anti-German sentiment. Prager initially worked as a baker in southern Illinois before taking up work as a laborer in a coal mine. He eventually settled in Collinsville, a hub for mining activity.
Ben Hur trailer was the nickname of the World War II U.S. Army Trailer, 1-ton payload, 2-wheel, cargo, and the Trailer, 1-ton payload, 2-wheel, water tank, 250 gallon ( U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Supply catalogue designations G-518 and G-527 respectively).
During the Civil War years, Lorenz Brentano was proprietor and editor-in-chief, [12] succeeding Schneider. [2] In these years, the paper fully dominated German-language press in the city, as Democratic German-language newspapers were short-lived at the time. [13] At this point, Illinois Staats-Zeitung was the second-largest daily newspaper in ...
This involved towing a Kässbohrer amphibious trailer (capable of transporting 10-20 tons of freight) behind the LWS. [ 3 ] The Landwasserschlepper was demonstrated to General Franz Halder on 2 August 1940 by the Reinhardt Trials Staff on the island of Sylt and, though he was critical of its high silhouette on land, he recognized the overall ...