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Gau Cologne-Aachen, the Glossary

The Gau Cologne-Aachen (German: Gau Köln-Aachen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the north-central part of the Prussian Rhine Province.^[1]

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1930s in Cologne
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Aachen

Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.

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Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany

The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power

Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party).

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Army Group B

Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) was the name of four distinct German army group commands that saw action during World War II.

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Battle of Aachen

The Battle of Aachen was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October 1944.

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The Battle of Cologne was part of Operation Lumberjack and refers to the Allied advance that took place from 5 to 7 March 1945, which led to the capture of the western German city of Cologne. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Battle of Cologne (1945) are 1940s in Cologne.

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Battle of Hürtgen Forest

The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a area about east of the Belgian–German border.

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

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Belgian government in exile

The Belgian Government in London (Gouvernement belge à Londres, Belgische regering in Londen), also known as the Pierlot IV Government, was the government in exile of Belgium between October 1940 and September 1944 during World War II.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia

Bergheim (Ripuarian: Berchem) is a German town, 22 km west of Cologne and the capital of the Rhein-Erft-Kreis (district).

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Bergisch Gladbach

Bergisch Gladbach is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district).

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Bonn

Bonn is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine.

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Briarcliff Manor, New York

Briarcliff Manor is a suburban village in Westchester County, New York, north of New York City.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Düren

Düren (Ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne, on the river Rur.

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Eitorf

Eitorf is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Elsdorf

Elsdorf is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Erkelenz

Erkelenz (Erkelens) is a town in the Rhineland in western Germany that lies southwest of Mönchengladbach on the northern edge of the Cologne Lowland, halfway between the Lower Rhine region and the Lower Meuse.

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Eschweiler

Eschweiler (Ripuarian: Eischwiele) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch border, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne.

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Eupen

Eupen (Ripuarian;; former) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes).

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Eupen-Malmedy

Eupen-Malmedy is a small, predominantly German-speaking region in eastern Belgium.

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Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau.

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Geilenkirchen

Geilenkirchen (Ripuarian: Jellekerke) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. Gau Cologne-Aachen and German Army (1935–1945) are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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German Historical Museum

The German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum), known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history.

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German invasion of Belgium (1940)

The invasion of Belgium or Belgian campaign (10–28 May 1940), often referred to within Belgium as the 18 Days' Campaign (Campagne des 18 jours; Achttiendaagse Veldtocht), formed part of the larger Battle of France, an offensive campaign by Germany during the Second World War.

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German occupation of Belgium during World War II

The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hürtgen Forest

The Hürtgen forest (also: Huertgen Forest; Hürtgenwald) is located along the border between Belgium and Germany, in the southwest corner of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Heinsberg

Heinsberg (Hinsberg) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Jülich

Jülich (in old spellings also known as Guelich or Gülich, Gulik, Juliers, Ripuarian: Jöllesch) is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Josef Grohé

Josef Grohé (6 November 1902 – 27 December 1987) was a German Nazi Party official.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Journal of Belgian History

The Journal of Belgian History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Cegesoma).

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Kornelimünster

Kornelimünster (Mönster) is a town in the rural Münsterländchen area of Kornelimünster/Walheim, a district of Aachen, Germany. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Kornelimünster are Aachen.

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Lindlar

Lindlar is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Linnich

Linnich is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Malmedy

Malmedy (Malmedy, historically also label; Måmdiy) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Malmedy had a total population of 12,654. The total area is 99.96 km2 which gives a population density of 127 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bellevaux-Ligneuville, Bévercé (including the hamlets of Baugnez and Xhoffraix), and Malmedy.

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Military occupation

Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.

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Military operation

A military operation (op) is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Nazi Germany are 1945 disestablishments in Germany and states and territories disestablished in 1945.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Nazi Party are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Niederaußem

Niederaußem is a section of the town of Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, located 18 km west of Cologne.

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Niederzier

Niederzier is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Nizkor Project

The Nizkor Project (נִזְכּוֹר, "we will remember") is an Internet-based project run by B'nai Brith Canada which is dedicated to countering Holocaust denial.

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Operation Blackcock

Operation Blackcock was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War.

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Operation Clipper

During the Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps (which included the American 84th Infantry Division) to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in mid-November 1944.

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Operation Grenade

During World War II, Operation Grenade was the crossing of the Roer river between Roermond and Düren by the U.S. Ninth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson, in February 1945, which marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of Germany.

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Operation Lumberjack

Operation Lumberjack was a military operation with the goal of capturing the west bank of the Rhine River and seizing key German cities, near the end of World War II in Europe.

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.

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Ore Mountains

The Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge, Krušné hory) lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany.

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Overath

Overath is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Panzergrenadier

(), abbreviated as PzG (WWII) or PzGren (modern), meaning "Armour"-ed fighting vehicle "Grenadier", is the German term for the military doctrine of mechanized infantry units in armoured forces who specialize in fighting from and in conjunction with infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) – that is, armoured troop carriers designed to carry a mechanized squad of six to eight soldiers into, during and out of combat while providing direct fire support for those troops.

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Prussia

Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.

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Rhine Province

The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1945. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Rhine Province are states and territories disestablished in 1945.

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Roer

The Roer or Rur (Rur; Dutch and Roer,,; Rour) is a major river that flows through portions of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Roermond

Roermond (Remunj or Remuunj) is a city, municipality, and diocese in the Limburg province of the Netherlands.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Ruhr

The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Second Army (United Kingdom)

The British Second Army was a field army active during the First and Second World Wars.

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Siegburg

Siegburg (i.e. fort on the Sieg river; Ripuarian: Sieburch) is a city in the district of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Siegfried Line

The Siegfried Line, known in German as the Westwall (.

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Sittard

Sittard is a city in the Netherlands, situated in the southernmost province of Limburg.

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Stavelot

Stavelot (Stablo; Ståvleu) is a town and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.

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Stolberg (Rhineland)

Stolberg (Ripuarian: Stolbersch) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Strategic bombing during World War II

World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.

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United States Army Center of Military History

The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command.

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Universal Newsreel

Universal Newsreel (sometimes known as Universal-International Newsreel or just U-I Newsreel) was a series of 7- to 10-minute newsreels that were released twice a week between 1929 and 1967 by Universal Studios.

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Verlautenheide

Verlautenheide is a rural section of northeast Aachen, with a population of around 3500. Gau Cologne-Aachen and Verlautenheide are Aachen.

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Vettweiß

Vettweiß (alternative spelling: Vettweiss) is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Vielsalm

Vielsalm (Li Viye Såm) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.

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VII Corps (United States)

The VII Army Corps of the United States Army was one of the two principal corps of the United States Army Europe during the Cold War.

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Volkssturm

The Volkssturm ("people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II.

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War Merit Cross

The War Merit Cross (Kriegsverdienstkreuz) was a state decoration of Nazi Germany during World War II. Gau Cologne-Aachen and war Merit Cross are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Weilerswist

Weilerswist is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Western Front (World War II)

The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The Italian front is considered a separate but related theatre. The Western Front's 1944–1945 phase was officially deemed the European Theater by the United States, whereas Italy fell under the Mediterranean Theater along with the North African campaign.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gau_Cologne-Aachen

Also known as Gau Cologne-Aix-la-Chapelle, Gau Köln-Aachen.

, Operation Clipper, Operation Grenade, Operation Lumberjack, Operation Market Garden, Ore Mountains, Overath, Panzergrenadier, Prussia, Rhine Province, Roer, Roermond, Royal Air Force, Ruhr, Second Army (United Kingdom), Siegburg, Siegfried Line, Sittard, Stavelot, Stolberg (Rhineland), Strategic bombing during World War II, United States Army Center of Military History, Universal Newsreel, Verlautenheide, Vettweiß, Vielsalm, VII Corps (United States), Volkssturm, War Merit Cross, Weilerswist, Western Front (World War II), Wipperfürth, World War II, 1st Infantry Division (United States).

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1930s in Cologne

1931 establishments in Germany

1940s in Cologne

Aachen

Rhine Province under Nazi rule

States and territories established in 1931

References