Gresse
Sign in to savethumb|left|Church Gresse is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. During World War II, one of the German death marches of Allied prisoners-of-war passed through the town. Sixty of the prisoners-of-war died at Gresse on 19 April 1945 in a "friendly fire" incident when strafed by a flight of Royal Air Force Hawker Typhoons which mistook them for retreating German soldiers.
Key facts
- German location.image_plan
- Gresse in LUP.svg
- German location.state
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- German location.district
- Ludwigslust-Parchim
- German location.Amt
- Boizenburg-Land
- German location.elevation
- 24
- German location.area
- 21.25
- German location.postal_code
- 19258
- German location.area_code
- 038842
- German location.licence
- LWL
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 13 0 76 054
- German location.website
- www.amtboizenburgland.de
- German location.mayor
- Werner Hornbacher
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Boizenburg-Land
- Population
- 700
- Area
- 21.08
- Elevation
- 24
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.amtboizenburgland.de
- Image
- Gresse church.jpg
- Dialing code
- 038842
- Licence plate code
- LWL
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- hashtag
- Gresse
- Commons category
- Gresse
- postal code
- 19258
- P8168
- Heinrich Hertel
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|left|Church Gresse is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. During World War II, one of the German death marches of Allied prisoners-of-war passed through the town. Sixty of the prisoners-of-war died at Gresse on 19 April 1945 in a "friendly fire" incident when strafed by a flight of Royal Air Force Hawker Typhoons which mistook them for retreating German soldiers.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gresse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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