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The Sea of Azov (Russian: Азовское море, Azovskoye more; Ukrainian: Азовське море, Azovs'ke more) is a northern section of the Black Sea, linked to the larger body through the Kerch Strait. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula. The Black Sea deluge theory dates the genesis of the Sea of Azov to 5600 BC, and there are traces of Neolithic settlement in the area now covered by it. In antiquity, it was known as the M ...

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1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1941 - Events. 1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. J ...

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1941 - January-February. January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea. January 21 - World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya. January 22 - World War II: British troops capture Tobruk from the Italians. January 23 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Cong ...

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By Meyer's return, the LSSAH had been transformed into SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 'Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler'. After the II SS-Korps had withdrawn from Kharkov, General Paul Hausser, ordered its recapture. Eager to reclaim their damaged prestige, the SS men launched into the assault. Meyer's reformed SS-Aufklärungs Abteilung 1 was constantly in the forefront of the fighting. During the Third Battle of Kharkov, Meyer's Abteilung frequently co-operated with Wünsche's SS-Panzer Regiment 1, Theodor ‘Teddy’ Wisch’s SS-Panzergrenadier ...

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The French army was under the supreme command of Emperor Napoleon, with Marshal Louis Alexandre Berthier as his chief of staff. The overall strength of the French army during the battle is estimated to have been about 73,000 men of all arms and 139 artillery pieces. This number also includes three battalions of men which made up the Army's train d'artillerie. Order of Battle at the Austerlitz campaign - Garde Impériale French Imperial Guard. Strength: 5,500 men and 24 guns. Marshal Jean-Bapt ...

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Taganrog does not resemble other seaside towns by the very fact that its location is not in a quiet harbor, but on a hill. The town is open to every wind - both from steppe or sea. In the wide, beam-like streets running down from the former fortress straight to the steppe distances, and in green shadowy boulevard alleys accompanying them, in the architectural image of the houses which unite the classical strictness with the baroque magnificence, in all this something new, wayward, southern and peculiar can be witnessed. In spite of the fact ...

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Meyer was held as a prisoner of war until December 1945, when in the town of Aurich Germany he was charged with five war crimes. After a brief trial, he was convicted of three of the five charges: inciting his troops to deny quarter; the killing of seven Canadian prisoners of war at his headquarters at the L’Ancienne Abbaye Ardenne on 8 June 1944; and the killing of eleven Canadian prisoners ...

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The Palace of Alexander I of Russia in Taganrog, where the Russian Emperor died in 1825, as appears on a 19th century postcard. The Assumption Cathedral in Taganrog, Russia (1818-1938), where Anton Chekhov was christened on February 10,1860. The Peter the Great Monument in the city of Taganrog (sculptor Mark Antokolski) as appears on a 19th century postcard. The Peter the Great Monument in the city of Taganrog (sculptor Mark Antokolski) as appears on a 19th century postcard. Taganrog City Theater (1866), founded in 1827 and named after Anton Chekho ...

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The City of Taganrog is the leading industrial center of the Rostov Oblast. Local industry is presented by aerospace, machine-building, automobile, military, iron and steel industry, engineering, metal traders and processors, timber, woodwork, pulp and paper, food, light, chemical and industry of construction materials, and one of the major ports of the Azov Sea. The area around Taganrog has a large industrial potential, a diversified agricultural industry, production plants and a modern infrastructure. The location of Taganrog on the intersection of traffic routes and the seaport facilitate ...

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Numerous Russian and international aristocrats, politicians, artists, and scientists were born and/or have lived in Taganrog. Taganrog is the native city of Anton Chekhov, Faina Ranevskaya and Dmitri Sinodi-Popov; names of Russian emperors Peter I of Russia and Alexander I of Russia; Cornelius Cruys, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Paustovsky, Nestor Kukolnik, Achilles Alferaki, Ioannis Varvakis and many other famous people are brought in mind when Taganrog is named. ...

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While the Division rested and refitted, Meyer went to visit Erwin Rommel, the overall commander of the Western Front. When he requested air cover, Rommel replied: Why are you telling me this? Do you believe that I drive around with my eyes closed? I have written report after report. In Africa I drew attention to the fatal impact of the fighter bombers, but the gentlemen in Berlin, of course, know much better, they simply don't believe my reports any longer! Something has to ...

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Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Early life, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Career in the SS, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Campaigns in Poland France and the Low Countries, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - The Balkans and Greece, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Barbarossa, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Kharkov and the Hitlerjugend Division, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Normandy and the battles around Caen, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Final battles in Normandy - Falaise pocket, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - End of the war - war crimes trials, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Bibliography - links

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Meyer's Abteilung took part in the June 1941 Operation Barbarossa as a part of Heeresgruppe Süd. His lightning quick actions during this campaign resulted in the nickname 'Schnelle Meyer' (lit. Speedy Meyer). The Abteilung's actions in the capture of Mariupol on the Black sea, where the Meyer ordered his men to literally 'charge the guns', resulted in the capture of not only the city, but also virtually a whole Soviet division. This battle is a typical example of Meyer's style of command. Daring and brave (Meyer was always at the ...

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1941 - January. January 4 - Henri Bergson, French philiosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859) January 5 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) January 8 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of Scouting (b. 1847) January 10 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879) January 10 - Joe Penner, American comedian and actor January 13 - James Joyce ...

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1941 - January. January 3 - Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician [[January 4[[ - Joan Frances Southwell, daughter to Frank & Dorothy, sister to Elizabeth January 5 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese film maker January 7 - Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004) January 7 - John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate January 8 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989) January 9 - Joan Baez, American singer and a ...

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Kurt Adolph Wilhelm Meyer was born in Jerxheim in Niedersachsen on 23 December, 1910. He came from a lower class family, his father being employed as a factory worker. In 1914, his father joined the Imperial German Army and served as an NCO in the First World War, obtaining the rank of Sergeant Major before dying from wounds received in battle. Meyer attended school in Jerxheim. After completing his education, Meyer was found work on a factory assembly line, then as a miner. He applied to join the Mecklenburg Landespolizei (Police force), seeing it perhaps as an escape from a labo ...

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Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Early life, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Career in the SS, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Campaigns in Poland France and the Low Countries, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - The Balkans and Greece, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Barbarossa, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Kharkov and the Hitlerjugend Division, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Normandy and the battles around Caen, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Final battles in Normandy - Falaise pocket, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - End of the war - war crimes trials, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Bibliography - links

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Though the command of a static Anti-Tank company did not suit Meyer at all, he performed admirably during the Fall Weiss, the Invasion of Poland. The LSSAH was attached to Generaloberst Gerd von Rundstedt's Heeresgruppe Süd during the campaign.. He was wounded on the 7th September 1939, receiving a shot through the shoulder. Despite this, Meyer continued to command the Anti-Tank company, and received the Iron Cross second class on 25 September 1939. After the campaign in Poland, Meyer requested a more mobile command. He received it, ...

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Following the Western Campaign, the 15 Kradschützenkompanie was reorganized into the LSSAH's Aufklärungsabteilung (Reconnaissance detachment) and Meyer was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer (Major). Mussolini's ill-fated invasion of the Balkans resulted in the Barbarossa campaign being delayed, and German forces brought to bear on the Yugoslav and Greek forces. Meyer's detachment was to cut off the Greek III Corps currently retreating from Albania. Meyer's Abteilung had to storm the formidable Klissura Pass, drive like hell for Lake K ...

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On June 6 1944, the Allies launched the greatest amphibious invasion in history - Operation Overlord. The Western front now existed. After much confusion, the Hitlerjugend got moving at around 1430 on June 6th, and several units advanced on Sword Beach until they were halted by fierce naval and anti-tank fire, and by the Allied Air Cover. Meyer's Regiment were ready for combat by 2200 on June 6th. Meyer set up his command post in the Abbaye A ...

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Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Early life, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Career in the SS, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Campaigns in Poland France and the Low Countries, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - The Balkans and Greece, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Barbarossa, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Kharkov and the Hitlerjugend Division, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Normandy and the battles around Caen, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Final battles in Normandy - Falaise pocket, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - End of the war - war crimes trials, Kurt Meyer Panzermeyer - Bibliography - links

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