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2 unusual facts about Penzberg


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In 1985 the locommotive was sold to company of Elizabeth Layritz GmbH in Penzberg, a firm specialising in the modernisation of scrapped locomotives.

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In order to follow Hitler`s "scorched earth" policy the local Nazi leaders wanted to blow up the coal mine which was the economic life blood of the town (The End by Ian Kershaw - p344), so, on 28 April 1945 Hans Rummer (the social democratic mayor of Penzberg until the Nazi takeover in 1933) and others deposed the Nazi mayor.


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These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA.


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