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5 days ago · Garmisch-Partenkirchen, market town, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the junction of the deep Loisach and Partnach valleys, in the Bavarian Alps at the foot of the Zugspitze (9,718 feet [2,962 metres]), which is the highest mountain in Germany. The town, a union of the two.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 17, 2024 · When the Winter Olympics 1936 were given to the new double-city Garmisch-Partenkirchen, people began to build the “real” Olympiaschanze at Gudiberg in October 1933. At the first trial competition on February 5th 1934 the Norwegian Rolf Kaarby jumped widest at 70 metres.
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May 9, 2024 · The historical town of Dinkelsbühl is located in Central Franconia on the northern stretch of the Romantic Road. According to many historians, it is the best-preserved medieval town in Germany, having remained totally unscathed during the World Wars, except for a broken window in the gothic cathedral of St. George.
4 days ago · Düsseldorf. The Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG (VSt or Vestag, United Steelworks) was a German industrial conglomerate producing coal, iron, and steel in the interbellum and during World War II. During the 1930s, VSt was one of the biggest German companies and, at times, also the largest steel producer in Europe.
15 hours ago · World War II had begun. World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human ...
May 16, 2024 · In the early 1960s the estate was extended north along concentric rings of streets, including Stamford Road and Hatton Road north of the Parade, where a second block of shops and flats, modern in style, was built in 1964-6. By then the city-wide shortage of development land influenced the layout of the southern neighbourhood, where two 12 ...
1 day ago · The Channel Islands were the only British territory occupied by the Germans during World War II. In June 1940, the British government evacuated Alderney. The Nazis built four camps in Alderney.
