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The ice-free Schirmacher Oasis, which now hosts the Maitri and Novolazarevskaya research stations, was spotted from the air by Richard Heinrich Schirmacher (who named it after himself) shortly before the Schwabenland left the Antarctic coast on 6 February 1939. [9] MS Schwabenland in 1938 German map of Antarctica (1941) showing Neuschwabenland ...
The MS Schwabenland, circa 1938. New Swabia was an area of land claimed by Nazi Germany in the Norwegian Queen Maud Land claim. [7] It was explored in 1939 by the crew of the MS Schwabenland of the Third German Antarctic Expedition who set out secretly on 17 December 1938 from Hamburg with the goal of establishing a German whaling base in Antarctica for the newly made German whaling fleet.
Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites. They were designed by notable sculptors, including Dušan Džamonja , Vojin Bakić , Miodrag Živković , Jordan and Iskra Grabul , and architects, including Bogdan Bogdanović ...
Marshall Islands War Memorial Park; Medjez-El-Bab Memorial; Memorial against war and fascism; Memorial Complex of Participants of the Great Patriotic War (Shusha) Memorial for the victims of a free Austria 1934–1945; Memorial Hall of the Chinese Expeditionary Force; Memorial Park, Port of Spain; Monument of Lihula; Monument to Richard Sorge
Like many cultural regions of Europe, Swabia's borders are not clearly defined. However, today it is normally thought of as comprising the former Swabian Circle, or equivalently the former state of Württemberg (with the Prussian Hohenzollern Province), or the modern districts of Tübingen (excluding the former Baden regions of the Bodenseekreis district), Stuttgart, and the administrative ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. Statues that commemorate people who collaborated with Nazis The United States has monuments to people who collaborated with the Nazis, that are located in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Georgia, and Michigan. Existing Monuments to French collaborators Petain ...
Schwabenland was a Hansa liner of 8,500 gross register tons (GRT), built in 1925. It was converted into a catapult ship in 1934; a Heinkel-built K-9 catapult was installed on the ship's stern, along with a crane for lifting aircraft.