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Catholic Parishes in Emsland in the Nineteenth Century
Emsland is a Landkreis in the Regierungsbezirk Weser-Ems in the Land Niedersachsen in northwest Germany.
Emsland extends from Papenburg in the north to Salzbergen in the south, with the Dutch border forming much of it's western boundary.
www.emslanders.com /emsland.htm   (396 words)

  
  Emsland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emsland is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.
In the 13th century the bishops of Münster gained control over the region; the Emsland remained property of the bishop until 1803, when the clerical states were dissolved.
1977 District reforms in Lower Saxony unite the former districts of Lingen, Meppen and Aschendorf-Hümmling in the district of Emsland, with Meppen as administrative seat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emsland   (432 words)

  
 The 15 Emsland camps 1933-1945
The first Emsland camps were built as concentration camps for the opponents of the regime, a large number of people who were taken in “preventive detention” (“Schutzhaft”) in the period when the dictatorship was set up.
The central Nazi administration and the regional authorities led negotiations to lay down the special aims of the Emsland camps: the employment of the camp detainees as forced labourers to cultivate the moors.
He installed a state-run squad of guard for the Emsland camps that again consisted of members of the SA and SS, but was directly under the control of the Prussian state.
www.uni-oldenburg.de /diz/english/camps00.htm   (1720 words)

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