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	TORGAU - LoveToKnow Article on TORGAU
		In the vicinity is the royal stud farm of Graditz.
		Torgau is said to have existed as the capital of a distinct principality in the time of the German king Henry I., but early in the I4th century it was in the possession of the margraves of Meissen and later of the electors of Saxony, who frequently resided here.
		Torgau is particularly celebrated as the scene of a battle fought on the 3rd of November 1760, when Frederick the Great defeated the Austrians (see SEVEN YEARS' WAR).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TO/TORGAU.htm (588 words)

	Torgau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Torgau is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany.
		Citizens of Torgau destroyed the paintings and statues of Saints in the Churches and stormed the Franciscan monastery.
		The Torgauer Artikel, a draft of the 'Augsburg Confession' was composed by Luther, Melanchthon, Bugenhagen and Jonas in the electoral superindenture in 1530 (Wintergrün).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torgau (402 words)

	TORENO, COUNT (1786-1843) - LoveToKnow Article on TORENO, COUNT (1786-1843)
		He was a patron of the turf, and established a race-course in Madrid, where the first races took place in the reign of Alphonso XII.
		TORGAU, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Saxony, situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 30 m.
		Its most conspicuous building is the Schloss Hartenfels, on an island in the Elbe, which was built, or at least was finished, by the elector of Saxony, John Frederick the Magnanimous.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TO/TORENO_COUNT_1786_1843_.htm (1374 words)

	Elbe Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Elbe Day, April 25, 1945, was the date Soviet and American troops met at the River Elbe, near Torgau in Germany, marking an important step toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
		On April 26 the commanders of the U.S. 69th Infantry Division of the First Army and the of the met at Torgau, southwest of Berlin.
		Statements were released simultaneously in London, Moscow, and Washington that evening reaffirming the determination of the three Allied powers to complete the destruction of the Third Reich.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Elbe_Day (242 words)

	Army: U.S. and Russian Staffs Conduct Groundbreaking Exercise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau 2004, named after the German city where American and Russian soldiers first met in the final days of World War II in Europe, was the first ever exercise of this magnitude and represents a major milestone in the evolution of the U.S.-Russian military relationship.
		Torgau 2004 used a notional scenario in which a U.S.-Russian combined task force, operating under a U.N. mandate, assisted an allied third country as it defended itself from foreign aggression.
		Torgau 2004 showed there are definite differences in how U.S. and Russian forces operate-specifically, procedural differences in how the military decision-making process is conducted, the level of directive information contained in operations orders to subordinate units and map symbols were among the most significant differences.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200409/ai_n9451923 (1138 words)

	AllRefer.com - Torgau, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau is an important railway junction and harbor.
		Long a strategic crossing point on the Elbe, Torgau was chartered in the 13th cent.
		The articles of the league were written (1530) by Luther, Melanchthon, and others, and they served as a basis for part of the Augsburg Confession.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Torgau.html (287 words)

	Das Medium ist die Botschaft / Fünfzehn Arten, ein Jubiläum zu sehen / The Medium is ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau, fifty years after the famous symbolic handshake between the Russians and the Americans on the banks of the Elbe.
		Torgau, the sleepy little town in,northern Saxony' (formerly,southern Prussia') is today - now that it is possible to excavate all sorts of (his)stories - more laden with history than hardly any other place.
		And Torgau is also the place where the Americans and the Russsians met in April 1945, on a bridge which was demolished two years ago.
	www.fdk-berlin.de /forum97/f017e.html (956 words)

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		By 1524, Walther was in Torgau, playing the bass at the court of Friedrich the Wise, Elector of Saxony.
		Kapelle (orchestra) at Torgau was disbanded in 1530, it was reconstituted by the town, and in 1534 Walther was also appointed cantor to the school at Torgau.
		He was pensioned by decree of August 7, 1554, and soon after returned to Torgau, retaining the title of
	www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/w/a/l/walther_j.htm (98 words)

	Torgau -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 10th century if fell under the rule of the (Sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire) Holy Roman Emperors, a castle and a settlement were built.
		Torgau belonged to the duchy of (Click link for more info and facts about Saxony-Wittenberg) Saxony-Wittenberg.
		During the (Improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs) reformation, the town council closed all cloisters in 1523.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/To/Torgau.htm (633 words)

	Meeting of Russian-US troops at Torgau - WWII 1990 Memorial
		The Torgau region has planned, a weeklong celebration to recall April 25, 1945, the day the U.S. 1st Army’s 69th Inf Div advanced eastward to the Elbe River and met the Soviets’ 1St Ukranian Army, thereby cutting Nazi Germany in two.
		Torgau, a city of 23,000, has asked the U.S. and Soviet forces to send Dixieland jazz bands to stage the pivotal event on the last day of the April 24-29 festival, a musical map meeting on the highway bridge that crosses the Elbe.
		That big the so-called ‘Oath of Torgau,” a pledge by representatives of the two armies that a war like the one they were fighting must never occur again.
	www.usmlm.org /home/russians/torgau90.htm (627 words)

	History: Socialist Prison Administration in Torgau (Das Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum(DIZ) Torgau)
		When the last three Soviet special camps were dissolved, responsibility for the incarceration of those prisoners sentenced by Soviet military tribunals was transferred to the GDR Ministry of the Interior.
		In Torgau alone, 115 inmates, weakened by years of internment in the Soviet camps, died within a year of tuberculosis, of inadequate living conditions and possibly of severe maltreatment.
		By 1956, most of the SMT convicts had been released, and Torgau inmates included Jehovah's Witnesses, clergymen who were critical of the regime, prisoners under Order 201 of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD), and persons convicted of "agitation against the state" (Article 6 of the East German constitution) or "economic crimes".
	www.stsg.de /main/torgau/geschichte/DDR/index_en.php (207 words)

	Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau is situated in the triangle of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg
		In addition to Torgau has a hotel-guiding-system, follow the green signpost.
		Torgau has a train connection to Leipzig and Cottbus.
	www.central-hotel-torgau.de /lage1.htm (94 words)

	Torgau on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vue aérienne près de Torgau La crue de l'Elbe accélérait sa progression vers le nord mardi en Allemagne, mais à un niveau.
		Vue aérienne près de Torgau La crue de l'Elbe continuait mardi soir sa progression vers le nord de l'Allemagne, mais le ni.
		Vue aérienne mardi près de Torgau en Allemagne La crue de l'Elbe a continué mardi soir sa progression vers le nord en Alle.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Torgau.asp (564 words)

	Analysis: Willful, stubborn Lutherides - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Luther's widow, the former Cistercian nun Katherine von Bora, died on Dec. 20, 1552, in Torgau, where she had fled from the plague from nearby Wittenberg.
		In Torgau he and Philipp Melanchthon, his principal collaborator, formulated Article 5 of the Augsburg Confession; this article is the first clear definition of the Church's ministry in historical Protestantism.
		And in Torgau Luther's favorite beer was brewed, a beverage he consumed in copious amounts, in addition to Rhine wine, which he also gulped down abundantly.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040908-123556-7796r.htm (809 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau became a military center and the city's significance was reducted as a garrison.
		With the liberation from fascism and later from stalinism, the preconditions for a development in democracy, justice and freedom were created.
		In compliance with suggestions of the representatives of all parlimentary groups of the Deutscher Bundestag and based on the new conception of the Torgau's citizens group, shall be the day of the united Europe standing in a close alliance with the other continents.
	www.uni-leipzig.de /~torgau/elbeday/historye.htm (378 words)

	Window Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torgau is an ancient river port on the largest river in eastern Germany, the Elbe.
		There is written evidence of Torgau's existence since the 10th Century, but the town grew very prosperous in the late 12th and early 13th Century.
		Torgau is most famous today as being the site of the unification of Allied ground troops in Europe in the Second World War, but Torgau's history run far deeper that the 20th Century.
	www2.carthage.edu /~rom/reftrip/pk/Torgau.html (236 words)

	Torgau commemorates 'historic handshake' - NDTV.com - News on Torgau commemorates 'historic handshake' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The German city of Torgau on Saturday celebrated the 60th Anniversary of a handshake that made history.
		Two soldiers shaking hands in one of the photos - Lieutenant William Robertson and Lieutenant Alexander Silwaschko - were made honorary citizens of Torgau at the 50th anniversary in 1995.
		The bridge at Torgau was torn down after the war, then rebuilt and torn down again.
	www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Torgau+commemorates+historic+handshake&id=72009 (282 words)

	DESTINATION - Torgau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 16th century Torgau was the political centre of the Reformation and the favoured residence of the electors of Saxony.
		World history was written here in April 1945, when the American and Soviet armies met in Torgau.
		Torgau lies on the Elbe River in the north of Saxony, 50 km from Leipzig and on the international Elbe Cycle Trail from Prague/Czech Republic to Hamburg.
	www.germany-tourism.de /e/city_torgau.html (257 words)

	TORGAU - Online Information article about TORGAU
		Torgau is said to have existed as the See also:
		January 1814 Torgau was taken by the Germans after a See also:
		Burger, Denkwiirdigkeiten der altsachsischan Residenz Torgau aus der Zeit der Reformation (Torgau, 1855) ; Knabe, Geschichte der Stadt Torgau bis zur Reformation (Torgau, 1880) ; and the publications of the Altertumverein zu Torgau (Torgau, 1884 sqq.).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TOO_TUM/TORGAU.html (723 words)

	History:Soviet Special Camps Nos. 8 and 10 in Torgau, 1945 - 1948 (Das Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) ...
		From Autumn of 1946 on, its special function in the system of "Special Camps" in the Soviet zone of occupation was the internment of Soviet citizens condemned by the Soviet Military Tribunals (SMT) awaiting transport to the forced labor camp complexes in the USSR.
		Half of all those deported from the special camps and related prisons in the Soviet zone of occupation to the USSR passed through Torgau.
		In proceedings that were not compatible with the rule of law, the military courts sentenced Soviet citizens to 5 to 25 years in "corrective labor camps" for collaboration with the Germans ("treason"), "absence without leave", desertion and criminal offenses.
	www.stsg.de /main/torgau/geschichte/speziallager/index_en.php (508 words)

	TEAM VALOR
		“Torgau was a smallish, wiry filly with distance limitations.
		She has much more physical scope than Torgau and she is bred to run farther, too.
		When Team Valor bought Torgau, the syndication price was $550,000, which would increase to $1.1 million if the filly won one of her next two races.
	www.teamvalor.com /news/070202 (1984 words)

	Racing: Torgau has Bravery jumping for joy
		The young Newmarket handler has only nine horses - and 31 empty boxes - but Torgau did her level best to ensure that Bravery felt, in no way, overwhelmed by the company he and she were keeping in this Group Two contest.
		Torgau is owned by the TT Partnership, a collection of bloodstock agents and managers, many of whom seemed unaware - surprised might be a better word - of how many colleagues had been in on the deal to buy the Zieten filly.
		Torgau finished sixth in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot but this was her finest hour, and one that she is unlikely to better.
	sport.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/07/sohots07.html (480 words)

	the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Melbourne
		However, Torgau's symbolic importance in contemporary history reaches further than the link-up of April 25, 1945.
		With its two military prisons and the supreme military court, which was moved there from Berlin in August, 1943, Torgau became a focal point of the Nazi military penal system.
		Furthermore, public commemoration of injustice in Torgau deals today with a "second history" that must not be neglected: the Soviet secret police agency NKVD, and later the East German police, used the same sites for the internment of former Nazis, as well as for the persecution of political dissidents.
	www.history.unimelb.edu.au /AAEH/speakers/Haase.html (365 words)

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		The first actual meeting of U.S. and Soviet forces is believed to have occurred when an American patrol crossed to the East bank of the Elbe in a small sailboat; Soviet soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front came down to the river bank to meet them.
		The bridge at Torgau was torn down after the war, then rebuilt and torn down again. It will be replaced by a new bridge this year.
		Before the official commemoration events on April 25th, there will be five days of lectures, exhibitions and concerts; performances by Russian folklore ensembles, musical and dance groups; a youth football tournament with German, American and Russian teams; the naming of the Elbe bridge; a street parade; and conversations with veterans who were there.
	nato.usmission.gov /Article.asp?ID=0EA3CB0F-324E-4C98-9376-F1099F36FAB3 (565 words)

	USAREUR Public Affairs News Release
		SETAF and 7th Army Training Center trainers view a Russian army terrain map to be used during Torgau 04.
		The purpose of Torgau 2004 is to enhance military-to-military working relationships and to promote better understanding of U. and Russian capabilities.
		Torgau 2004 is named after the German city where American and Russian Soldiers first met in the final days of World War II in Europe.
	www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2004/May2004/18May2004-01.htm (190 words)

	XXXXVIII.Panzerkorps
		The CP of the Korps and the advance message center are primarily to be located in the district of Torgau.
		At Oschatz were beside the soldiers of a military riding and driving school an engineer instruction unit (the fighting strength of which was one battalion); the latter was of a good fighting quality.
		To him were subordinated the station Delitzsch and all units at the Mulde-sector and east of it as far as to the Elbe (troops at the Elbe excepted).
	www.feldgrau.com /xxxxviii.html (5431 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Saxony ]
		Torgau, however, was located in what was until 1945 the Prussian province of Saxony (in German: Provinz Sachsen; capital: Halle).
		Following World War II and the break-up of the huge state of Prussia, most of the Prussian province of Saxony and the very small state of Anhalt (capital: Dessau) combined to form today's state of Saxony-Anhalt (in German: Sachsen-Anhalt), the capital of which is the city of Magdeburg.
		There were some border adjustments following World War II and today Torgau is in the state of Saxony, not in Saxony-Anhalt.
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/msg/an/Te.2ADEAE/298.2 (208 words)

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