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    The Gau Westmark (English: Western March) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. From 1925 to 1933, it was a regional subdivision...
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    Austria. He held the posts of Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter in both Gau Westmark and Reichsgau Vienna. Joseph Bürckel was born in Lingenfeld, in the Bavarian...
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  • was a Nazi Party official and politician who served as Gauleiter of Gau Westmark in the closing months of the war. Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld the son...
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    11 March 1941 as Westmark, meaning "Western March" or "Western Boundary," with its governor styled as Reichsstatthalter in der Westmark, "Reich Governor...
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    Civil Administration of Lorraine) was an administrative division of the Gau Westmark from 1940 to 1945. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the...
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    Bürckel – A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland (later, Gau Westmark) from 1935. An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was Chief of Civil Administration...
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    virtually defunct under the Nazi regime, when Kallstadt belonged to the Gau Westmark. The Palatinate was separated from Bavaria in 1946 and became a part...
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    The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...
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    Palatinate, but united with the latter as the Gau of Saar-Palatinate (Saarpfalz). In 1942 it was renamed Westmark (Western March), as it was planned to be...
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    of the Saar Basin None. 1 March 1935 – April 1945 Gau Palatinate-Saar Gau Saar-Palatinate Gau Westmark Saar Basinian resistance Ukrainian National Government...
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