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During World War II, Magdeburg was the location of 30 forced labour detachments of the Stalag XI-A prisoner-of-war camp for some 4,500 Allied POWs, [19] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see also Romani Holocaust), [20] and three subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp, in which mostly Jewish men and boys and Soviet, Polish and Jewish ...
The provincial capital was Magdeburg. The province was created on 1 July 1944 out of Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg, a government region from the former Province of Saxony. [1] The province was occupied by American troops after the conquest of Magdeburg in April 1945 during World War II.
Map of the Magdeburg region c. 1820.. The region was formed in 1815 as a subdivision of the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of Saxony.In 1944 it was briefly separated as a province in its own right – the Province of Magdeburg – before becoming part of post-war Saxony-Anhalt within the Soviet occupation zone after World War II and then East Germany in 1949.
1806 - Siege of Magdeburg (1806) by French forces; Magdeburg "annexed to the kingdom of Westphalia." [4] 1814 - Magdeburg becomes part of Prussia again. [4] 1815 - Administrative Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg (region) created. 1818 - Prussian IV Army Corps headquartered in Magdeburg. 1824 - Herrenkrugpark expanded.
Magdeburg Magdeburg: Polte-Werke: Munitions factory, clearing debris Markkleeberg Markkleeberg: Junkers Manufacture of aircraft parts Meuselwitz Meuselwitz: Hugo Schneider AG Production of bazookas and grenades Mittelbau-Dora: Nordhausen: Mittelwerk GmbH, Junkers Production of V1 flying bombs, V2 rocket assemblies, HE-162 jet engines ...
With the end of World War II and the establishment of the communist-led German Democratic Republic in 1949, Magdeburg fell under Soviet control and the ownership of the cathedral to the GDR. Communist leaders tried to suppress religion as a potential threat to communist doctrine, thus being active in church was a social disadvantage.
The Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Formed in 1926 as Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province by the merger of three smaller Gaue (Anhalt, Elbe-Havel and Magdeburg) it comprised the German state of Anhalt and part of the Prussian province of Saxony. It was renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt on 1 October ...
Map of NS administrative division in 1944 Gaue of the Nazi Party in 1926, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1943. The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional districts in Weimar Germany based on the territorial changes after the First World War. [1]