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Strasshof
Strasshof an der Nordbahn (meaning ''Strasshof at the Northern railway''; Central Bavarian: ''Strasshof aun da Noadbauh'') is a satellite town 25 km east of Vienna, Austria. A historical locomotive built by LOFAG is displayed in the town. Geography Strasshof an der Nordbahn lies in Marchfeld in Lower Austria. About 21.08 percent of the municipality is forested. History Strasshof had about 50 inhabitants in 1900, and a railroad yard functioned from 1908 to 1959. In 1944, about 75 percent of 21,000 Hungarian Jews deported from a concentration camp at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann. On 2 December 1944 the marshalling yard in "Straszhof" was targeted in a United States Army Air Forces bombing by the 47th Bombardment Wing. There was solid overcast over the city causing the wing to bomb Wien Florisdorf Shell Refinery as an alternative. The west marshalling yard was bombed on 26 March 1945 by the 49t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasshof Hauptstrasse
Strasshof an der Nordbahn (meaning ''Strasshof at the Northern railway''; Central Bavarian: ''Strasshof aun da Noadbauh'') is a satellite town 25 km east of Vienna, Austria. A historical locomotive built by LOFAG is displayed in the town. Geography Strasshof an der Nordbahn lies in Marchfeld in Lower Austria. About 21.08 percent of the municipality is forested. History Strasshof had about 50 inhabitants in 1900, and a railroad yard functioned from 1908 to 1959. In 1944, about 75 percent of 21,000 Hungarian Jews deported from a concentration camp at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann. On 2 December 1944 the marshalling yard in "Straszhof" was targeted in a United States Army Air Forces bombing by the 47th Bombardment Wing. There was solid overcast over the city causing the wing to bomb Wien Florisdorf Shell Refinery as an alternative. The west marshalling yard was bombed on 26 March 1945 by the 49t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osovcy (air Base)
Osovcy ( official transliteration: Asaŭcy) is an air base of the Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Republic of Belarus located in Byaroza, Brest Region, Belarus. Bereza (Osovcy) is 7 km NW of Byaroza. Alternate given coordinates are 52° 33.4' N 24° 52.8' E. The airfield is one of the oldest in Soviet/Russian aviation history. Mentions of it date back to 1915, when a separate combat detachment was based at the airfield, consisting of two aircraft "Ilya Muromets" from the 4th aviation company based at the airfield Lida. The detachment operated jointly with the Imperial 3rd Army from February 1915 and, in addition to Bereza, was also based at airfields in Brest-Litovsk and Slutsk. By September 10, 1915, Bereza-Kartuzskaya (the name of the city was Bereza (Birch) until 1940) was occupied by the Germans. The combat detachment of Ilya Muromets aircraft flew to Slutsk, from where it continued to bomb enemy positions in Bereza Kartuzskaya, Skobelevsky camp, Baranovichi an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone Numbers In Austria
This article details the use of telephone numbers in Austria. There are no standard lengths for either area codes or subscriber numbers in Austria, meaning that some subscriber numbers may be as short as three digits. Larger towns have shorter area codes permitting longer subscriber numbers in that area. Some examples: Mobile phone codes In ascending numeric order: *1 Telering was bought by T-Mobile in 2005. As of 2006, Telering uses the network-infrastructure of T-Mobile. As a special requirement of the European commission, many of the former transmitters and frequencies previously operated by Telering were given to Orange and Drei. *2 BoB is a discount service of A1. yesss! was a discount service of Orange, now sold to A1. Eety is a discount service of Orange (now 3). Due to Mobile number portability Mobile number portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network carrier to another. Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gänserndorf District
Bezirk Gänserndorf () is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria. The Marchfeld lies in it. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. *Aderklaa * Andlersdorf *''Angern an der March'' **Angern an der March, Grub an der March, Mannersdorf an der March, Ollersdorf, Stillfried *''Auersthal'' *''Bad Pirawarth'' **Bad Pirawarth, Kollnbrunn *Deutsch-Wagram *'' Drösing'' **Drösing, Waltersdorf an der March *''Dürnkrut'' **Dürnkrut, Waidendorf *'' Ebenthal'' *''Eckartsau'' **Eckartsau, Kopfstetten, Pframa, Wagram an der Donau, Witzelsdorf *''Engelhartstetten'' **Engelhartstetten, Groißenbrunn, Loimersdorf, Markthof, Schloßhof, Stopfenreuth *Gänserndorf *Glinzendorf *Groß-Enzersdorf **Franzensdorf, Groß-Enzersdorf, Matzneusiedl, Mühlleiten, Oberhausen, Probstdorf, Rutzendorf, Schönau an der Donau, Wittau *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aid And Rescue Committee
The Aid and Rescue Committee, or ''Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht'' (''Vaada'' for short; name in ) was a small committee of Zionists in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944–1945, who helped Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust during the German occupation of that country.Bauer, Yehuda (1994). ''Jews for Sale: Nazi–Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945''. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 152. The Committee was also known as the Rescue and Relief Committee, and the Budapest Rescue Committee. The main personalities of the ''Vaada'' were Ottó Komoly, president; Rudolf Kasztner, executive vice-president; Samuel Springmann, treasurer; and Joel Brand, who was in charge of ''tijul'' or the underground rescue of Jews.Hilberg, Raul. ''The Destruction of the European Jews'', Yale University Press, 2003, p. 901. Other members were Hansi Brand (Joel Brand's wife); Erno Szilagyi from the left-wing ''Hashomer Hatzair'';Bauer 1994, p. 153. Peretz Revesz; Andras Biss; and Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann ( , ''''. ; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian SS-'''' and one of the major organisers of – the so-called " |
Strategic Bombing During World War II
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power. During World War II, many military strategists of air power believed that air forces could win major victories by attacking industrial and political infrastructure, rather than purely military targets. Strategic bombing often involved bombing areas inhabited by civilians, and some campaigns were deliberately designed to target civilian populations in order to terrorize them and disrupt their usual activities. International law at the outset of World War II did not specifically forbid the aerial bombardment of cities – despite the prior occurrence of such bombing during World War I (1914–1918), the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Bombardment Wing (World War II)
The 47th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force pilot training wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, near Del Rio, Texas. It is one of five pilot training units in the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command which conducts joint specialized undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and allied nation air forces utilizing the T-38C, T-6A and T-1A aircraft. Units * 47th Medical Group : 47th Medical Operations Squadron : 47th Medical Support Squadron * 47th Mission Support Group : 47th Security Forces Squadron "Amistad Defenders" Camp Bucca, 886th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron * 47th Operations Group (Tail Code: XL) : 47th Operations Support Squadron : 85th Flying Training Squadron (T-6A) "Tigers" : 434th Flying Training Squadron (T-6A) "Red Devils" : 86th Flying Training Squadron (T-1A) "Rio Lobos" : 87th Flying Training Squadron (T-38C) "Red Bulls" * 340th Flying Training Group (AFRC) : 96th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Publishing
Turner Publishing Company is an American independent book publisher based in Nashville, Tennessee. The company is in the top 101 independent publishing companies in the U.S. as compiled bBookmarket.com and has been named four times to ''Publishers Weekly''s Fastest Growing Publishers List. History Turner Publishing Company was founded in 1984 in Paducah, Kentucky as a publisher of books. From 1984 to 2005 the company published specialty and commemorative titles focusing on history. During this period, Turner Publishing Company produced over 500 titles in the categories of military history, local history, and organizational history, including: History of the FDNY (New York City Fire Department) and History of the 101st Airborne Division. In 2002 the company was sold to new management and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Turner launched its move into trade publishing with a program of regional history titles in 2005. This series of local history photography books, called "Historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railroad Yard
A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line, so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic. Cars or wagons are moved around by specially designed yard switchers (US) or shunters, a type of locomotive. Cars or wagons in a yard may be sorted by numerous categories, including railway company, loaded or unloaded, destination, car type, or whether they need repairs. Yards are normally built where there is a need to store rail vehicles while they are not being loaded or unloaded, or are waiting to be assembled into trains. Large yards may have a tower to control operations. Many yards are located at strategic points on a main line. Main-line yards are often composed of an up yard and a down yard, linked to the associated direction of travel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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