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2 unusual facts about Bünde


Bunde

Bunde, Germany, a town in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Revell

In 1956, the German subsidiary, Revell Plastics GmbH, was founded in Bünde, West Germany.


Big Week

# 289 B-17s are dispatched against aviation industry targets at Aschersleben (34 bomb), Bernburg (47 bomb) and Halberstadt (18 bomb) in conjunction with a Fifteenth Air Force raid on Regensburg, Germany; 32 hit Bünde, 19 hit Wernigerode, 15 hit Magdeburg, 9 hit Marburg and 7 hit other targets of opportunity; they claim 32-18-17 Luftwaffe aircraft; 38 B-17s are lost, 4 damaged beyond repair and 141 damaged; casualties are 35 KIA, 30 WIA and 367 MIA.

Grönegau

From around 800 to the 12th century the old southern Gau border probably ran from Borgholzhausen and Halle to Bünde and Spenge in the east.

Willi Graf

In 1938, he was arrested along with other members of the Grauer Orden and charged by a court in Mannheim with illegal youth league activities–the Bünde having been banned–in relation with his unlawful field trips, camping excursions and other meetings with the Grauer Orden.


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