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3 unusual facts about Josef Bürckel


Josef Bürckel

Bormann responded by dispatching Willi Stöhr (who was to succeed Bürckel after his death) to oversee the construction work.

Joseph Bürckel (30 March 1895, Lingenfeld, Germersheim–28 September 1944, Neustadt an der Weinstraße) was a German politician and a member of the German parliament (the Reichstag).

On 8 September 1944, in a letter to Martin Bormann (with whom Bürckel didn't get along), Bürckel opined that the lack of combat-ready troops to occupy the defensive line of the Moselle from the boundary of Gau Westmark via the arsenal of Metz-Diedenhofen, south of Saint-Avold (part of the Maginot Line), to Sarralbe made construction of such defensive positions useless.



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