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  • Not far from Dresden there was a work camp called Schlieben, where Jewish inmates produced Panzerfausts, the deadly antitank rockets that would become the favorite weapons of the fanatical Hitler Youth in their final suicidal battles against Allied troops.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Not far from Dresden there was a work camp called Schlieben, where Jewish inmates produced Panzerfausts, the deadly antitank rockets that would become the favorite weapons of the fanatical Hitler Youth in their final suicidal battles against Allied troops.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • Waltzer was able to zero in directly with experts in Schlieben, which is where this whole story was supposed to have taken place. â€

    State News Top Stories 2009

  • Later, with American artillery pointed at his own bunker, von Schlieben decided it was time to surrender.

    D-DAY 2008

  • In the early hours of February 14, the slave laborers of Schlieben watched Dresden burn.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • In Cherbourg, he had savored the capture of General Karl Wilhelm von Schlieben, regional commander.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • In the early hours of February 14, the slave laborers of Schlieben watched Dresden burn.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • In Cherbourg, he had savored the capture of General Karl Wilhelm von Schlieben, regional commander.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • When Schlieben was seized, he said, "If Monsieur the Regent does not take pity upon me, I am ruined."

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • Major Randall Bryant was beside Manton Eddy, the divisional commander, when a tall, dignified German officer detached himself from the long file of surrendering defenders emerging from the arsenal and announced formally: “I am von Schlieben.”

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

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