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Alpine Fortress

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The Alpine Fortress (Alpenfestung) or Alpine Redoubt was the World War II national redoubt planned by Heinrich Himmler in November and December 1943"Himmler started laying the plans for underground warfare in the last two months of 1943.... [1]

31 relations: Allied-occupied Germany, Christopher Lee, Führermuseum, Festung, Franz Hofer, Franz Stangl, Frederick Mayer (spy), Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße, Glossary of Nazi Germany, Gordon Gollob, Gottlob Berger, Harold Cole, Jürgen Stroop, Joseph Goebbels, Karl-Friedrich Merten, List of Axis operational codenames in the European Theatre, Martin Niemöller, National redoubt, Nikolaus von Vormann, Robert Conroy, Robert Ley, Rupprecht Gerngroß, Sixth United States Army Group, The Man with the Iron Heart, The March (1945), Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol, TSV 1860 Rosenheim, V-2 rocket facilities of World War II, Werwolf, 24th Army (Wehrmacht), 289th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States).

Allied-occupied Germany

Upon the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the victorious Allies asserted their joint authority and sovereignty over 'Germany as a whole', defined as all territories of the former German Reich which lay west of the Oder–Neisse line, having declared the extinction of Nazi Germany at the death of Adolf Hitler (see 1945 Berlin Declaration).

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Führermuseum

The Führermuseum (English, Leader's Museum), also referred to as the Linz art gallery, was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz, near his birthplace of Braunau.

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Festung

Festung is a generic German word for a fortress.

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Franz Hofer

Franz Hofer (November 27, 1902 in Bad Hofgastein – February 18, 1975 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

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Franz Stangl

Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian-born police officer who became an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi Germany.

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Frederick Mayer (spy)

Frederick "Fred" Mayer (28 October 1921 – 15 April 2016) was a German-born American spy who was an OSS agent for the United States during World War II.

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Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße

Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße is a municipality, at the foot of Grossglockner mountain, in the district of Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg in Austria.

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Glossary of Nazi Germany

This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime.

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Gordon Gollob

Gordon Max "Mac" Gollob (16 June 1912 – 7 September 1987) was a German fighter pilot during World War II.

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Gottlob Berger

Gottlob Christian Berger (16 July 1896 – 5 January 1975) was a senior German Nazi official who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general), and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting during World War II.

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Harold Cole

Harold Cole (24 January 1906 – 8 January 1946), also known as Harry Cole or Paul Cole, was a British soldier, who assisted then betrayed many in the French Resistance to the Gestapo during World War II.

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Jürgen Stroop

Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop, 26 September 1895 – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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Karl-Friedrich Merten

Karl-Friedrich Merten (15 August 1905 – 2 May 1993) commanded the U-boat in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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List of Axis operational codenames in the European Theatre

The list of Axis named operations in the European Theatre represents those military operations that received a codename, predominantly from the Wehrmacht commands.

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Martin Niemöller

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 18926 March 1984) was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor.

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National redoubt

A national redoubt or national fortress is an area to which the (remnant) forces of a nation can be withdrawn if the main battle has been lost or even earlier if defeat is considered inevitable.

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Nikolaus von Vormann

Nikolaus von Vormann (24 December 1895 – 26 October 1959) was a general of Prussian background who served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany.

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Robert Conroy

Joseph Robert Conroy (August 24, 1938 – December 30, 2014) was an author of alternate history novels.

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Robert Ley

Robert Ley (15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German politician during the Nazi era who headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945.

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Rupprecht Gerngroß

Rupprecht Gerngroß (21 June 1915 - 25 February 1996) (in German) accessed: 27 June 2008 was a German lawyer and leader of the Freiheitsaktion Bayern, the FAB, (English:Bavarian freedom initiative), a group involved in an attempt to overthrow the Nazis in Munich in April 1945.

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Sixth United States Army Group

The Sixth United States Army Group was an Allied Army Group that fought in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

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The Man with the Iron Heart

The Man with the Iron Heart is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove.

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The March (1945)

"The March" refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe.

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Transport of concentration camp inmates to Tyrol

The transport of prominent inmates of German concentration camps to the Tyrol occurred in late April 1945, during the final weeks of the Second World War in Europe.

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TSV 1860 Rosenheim

TSV 1860 Rosenheim is a German association sport club from the town of Rosenheim, Bavaria.

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V-2 rocket facilities of World War II

V-2 rocket facilities were military installations associated with Nazi Germany's V-2 SRBM ballistic missile, including bunkers and small launch pads which were never operationally used.

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Werwolf

Werwolf (German for "werewolf") was a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany.

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24th Army (Wehrmacht)

The 24th Army (German: 24. Armee) was a World War II field army of the German Army.

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289th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States)

The 289th Engineer Combat Battalion was a combat engineer battalion of the United States Army during World War II.

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Alpenfestung, Alpine Redoubt, Operation Alpenfestung.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Fortress

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