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  2. Georg Elser - Wikipedia

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    Georg Elser (the name normally used to refer to him) was born in Hermaringen, Württemberg, to Ludwig Elser (1872–1942) and Maria Müller (1879–1960). His parents married one year after his birth, and Maria moved to Königsbronn to live with Ludwig on his smallholding. His father was a timber merchant, while his mother worked on the farm.

  3. List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations - Wikipedia

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    Medical conditions are often named after the person who first described the disorder and can also be named after the first person in whom the disorder presented or the area in which it first appeared. [2] [1] Germany lost many scientists as a result of the persecution of Jewish people, and others, during World War II.

  4. List of victims of Nazism - Wikipedia

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    This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, were murdered by the Nazi regime. It includes those murdered in the Holocaust , as well as individuals otherwise killed by the Nazis before and during World War II.

  5. Helmuth Hübener - Wikipedia

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    A youth centre, school and a pathway in Hamburg are named after Hübener. The last runs between Greifswalder Straße and Kirchenweg in Sankt Georg. At the former Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, an exhibit about young Helmuth Hübener's resistance, trial, and execution was located in the former guillotine chamber that has since been changed to ...

  6. Victims of the Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia

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    Hitler was godfather to his children. Shot in a cell in the Gestapo HQ. [4] Reported as a suicide. [8] Julius Uhl Dachau concentration camp SA-Standartenfuhrer, Hitler named him in the Reichstag as the man who would've killed him Arrested at Bad Weissee on June 30 then transferred to Stadelheim Prison.

  7. Gerhard Kretschmar - Wikipedia

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    Gerhard Herbert Kretschmar (20 February 1939 – 25 July 1939) was a German child born with severe disabilities. After receiving a petition from the child's parents, the German Führer Adolf Hitler authorized one of his personal physicians, Karl Brandt, to have the child euthanized.

  8. Names of the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    The term is sometimes used in a broader sense to include the Nazi Party's systematic murder of millions of people in other groups they determined were "Untermenschen" or "subhuman", which included, besides the Jews, Slavs, including Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, Serbs, Czechs, the former having allegedly infected the latter, and also, the Romani ...

  9. Claus von Stauffenberg - Wikipedia

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    Count Claus von Stauffenberg (German: [ˈklaʊs fɔn ˈʃtaʊfn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair, part of Operation Valkyrie, a plan that would have seen the arrest of Nazi leadership in the wake of Hitler's death and an early end to World War II.