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Neuhausen am Rheinfall (sometimes abbreviated as Neuhausen a. Rhf., [3] called Neuhausen until 1938) is a town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The town is close to the Rhine Falls ( German : Rheinfall ), mainland Europe's largest waterfall.
In 1941 there were Fire Protection Police units in 86 cities in Germany, in Ostmark (occupied Austria) and in General Government (occupied Poland). [2] Outside these cities, the German fire services consisted of volunteer fire brigades, in cooperation with compulsory fire brigades (Pflichtfeuerwehr) and industrial fire brigades (Werkfeuerwehr ...
The term "Schlupf-Lehn" derives from the Swiss German word for "slide out", as the feudal hereditary could be revoked if the administrator did not meet its obligations to the monastery. [ 3 ] When the railway was built, the water traffic route lost its importance, and the Canton of Schaffhausen rebuilt the building as a restaurant in 1835/36. [ 2 ]
Neuhausen ob Eck, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Neuhausen ob Eck Airfield, former military base and currently used as a business park and for a music festival; Neuhausen/Spree, a municipality in Brandenburg, Germany; Neuhausen, Saxony, a municipality in the district of Freiberg in Saxony, Germany; Neuhausen, a borough of Worms ...
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (= western bulwark), was a German defensive line built during the late 1930s. Started in 1936, opposite the French Maginot Line, it stretched more than 630 km (390 mi) from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the western border of Nazi Germany, to the town of Weil am Rhein on the border with Switzerland.
The German economist de:Bruno Gleitze from the German Institute for Economic Research estimated that included in the total of 7.1 million deaths by natural causes that there were 1,2 million excess deaths caused by an increase in mortality due to the harsh conditions in Germany during and after the war [151] In Allied occupied Germany the ...
The Wehrkreise after the Anschluss Map of the Wehrkreise in 1943-1944. The military districts, also known in some English-language publications by their German name as Wehrkreise (singular: Wehrkreis), [1]: 27–40 were administrative territorial units in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The task of military districts was the ...