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8 unusual facts about Hammelburg


European Land-Robot Trial

The military ELROB 2010 took place from June 17 to 20 2010 on the army training area near Hammelburg in Germany.

Hammelburg

The American television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971), featured a fictional Luft-Stalag 13, said to be near Hammelburg.

John K. Waters

Waters, who had married General George S. Patton's daughter Beatrice in 1934, was one of many officers interned at Hammelburg.

Lyle Bouck

Bouck and his men were finally imprisoned in Stalag XIII-D in Nuremberg and later in Stalag XIII-C in Hammelburg, where the non-commissioned and enlisted men were split, with the officers sent to Oflag XIII-B.

Sophia Reuter

In 2002 she began teaching at the BJSO Bavarian Music Academy in Hammelburg, Germany, and around this time began two years of study with Prof. Alfred Lipka in Berlin.

Stalag

The airmen in the show Hogan's Heroes were imprisoned in fictitious Stalag Luft 13 near Hammelburg.

Stalag XIII-C

The 1960s and 1970s American television program Hogan's Heroes was situated in a fictitious POW Camp called "Stalag 13" located near Hammelburg.

William A. Connelly

The first of his four tours in Europe was with the 826th Tank Battalion at Hammelburg and Schweinfurt, Germany, from January 1955 until November 1956.


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Gössenheim

Gössenheim now lies on Bundesstraße 27 between Karlstadt and Hammelburg, and it belongs to the local area of the lesser centre of Gemünden in the Würzburg Region.

Oflag 64

Part of the group, including Lt. Col. Goode were again marched out to Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, where they were liberated by units of the U.S. 14th Armored Division on 29 April (three weeks after Hammelburg had been liberated by the same unit).

Untererthal

The American television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971), featured a fictional Stalag 13, said to be near Hammelburg, possibly in or near Untererthal.


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