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Wilhelm Wien German physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1911 for his displacement law concerning the radiation emitted by the perfectly efficient blackbody (a surface that absorbs all radiant energy falling on it). Wien obtained his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1886.
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Wien was a member of the Academies of Sciences of Berlin, Göttingen, Vienna, Stockholm, Christiania and Washington, and an Honorary member of the Physical Society of Frankfurt-on-Main. In 1898 he married Luise Mehler of Aix-la-Chapelle.
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Of nearly six million that were captured, around 3 million died during their imprisonment. In June 1941, Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union and carried out a war of extermination with complete disregard for the laws and customs of war. Among the criminal orders issued before the invasion was the execution of captured Soviet commissars.
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General Wilhelm Falley of the 91st Air-Landing Infantry Division could clearly hear the roar of thousands of Allied aircraft engines in the night sky. He turned his car around and raced back to his headquarters near Bernaville.
The 305th Division under General Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck was one, a patchwork of men from all over the Reich or the occupied territories. Another “Stalingrad unit” was the 44th Division under General Friedrich Franek, filled with raw recruits and given a hasty training.