What German city was the family that developed and built the 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 from?
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8.8 cm KwK 36 The 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 (German: "8,8 cm Kampfwagenkanone 36 L/56" ) was an 88 mm tank gun used by the German Heer during World War II. This was the primary armament of the PzKpfw VI Tiger I tank. It was developed and built by Krupp.
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Krupp The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It was important to weapons development and production in both world wars. One of the most powerful dynasties in European history, for 400 years Krupp flourished as the premier weapons manufacturer for Germany. From the Thirty Years' War until the end of the Second World War, they produced everything from battleships, U-boats, tanks, howitzers, guns, utilities, and hundreds of other commodities.
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House of Bismarck The House of Bismarck is a German noble family that rose to prominence in the 19th-century, largely through the achievements of the statesman Otto von Bismarck. He was granted the hereditary title of Prince of Bismarck in 1871, a hereditary comital title in 1865 and a ducal title, Duke of Lauenburg, held only for his own lifetime. Several of Otto's descendants, notably his son Herbert, Prince of Bismarck, were also politicians.
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German submarine U-566 German submarine "U-566" was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 30 March 1940 at the Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg as yard number 542, launched on 20 February 1941 and commissioned on 17 April under the command of "Kapitänleutnant" Dietrich Borchert.
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Prince Leopold of Bavaria Leopold Maximilian Joseph Maria Arnulf, Prinz von Bayern (9 February 1846 – 28 September 1930) was born in Munich, the son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821–1912) and his wife Archduchess Augusta of Austria (1825–1864). He was a Field Marshal ("Generalfeldmarschall") who commanded German and Austro-Hungarian forces on the Eastern Front in World War I.
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German battleship Gneisenau Gneisenau was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, of Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine". She was the second vessel of her class, which included one other ship, "Scharnhorst" . The ship was built at the "Deutsche Werke" dockyard in Kiel; she was laid down on 6 May 1935 and launched on 8 December 1936. Completed in May 1938, the ship was armed with a main battery of nine 28 cm (11 in) C/34 guns in three triple turrets, though there were plans to replace these weapons with six 38 cm (15 in) SK C/34 guns in twin turrets.
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12.7 cm SK C/34 naval gun The 12.7 cm SK C/34 was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed on destroyers from 1934 through the Second World War. Some of these guns remained in service until 2003 in the coastal defense units of Norway.
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Brandis family The Brandis family is a German family, originally a patrician family from Hildesheim, and later with ties to Denmark and British India. From the 15th century family members were influential in the politics of Hildesheim and several family members served as burgomasters. Numerous family members have been noted as lawyers, physicians and academics.
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Blohm+Voss Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc, is a German shipbuilding and engineering company, Founded in Hamburg in 1877, its most famous product is the World War II battleship "Bismarck".
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24 cm SK L/40 The 24 cm Schnelladekanone Länge 40, abbreviated as 24 cm SK L/40, was a German naval gun developed in the years before World War I that armed a number of the Imperial German Navy's pre-dreadnought battleships and armored cruisers. Later guns removed from these ships were converted to coastal artillery and were used during World War I and World War II. The actual bore diameter was 23.8 cm , but the classification system for artillery rounded up to the next highest centimeter.
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Otto Lagerfeld Otto Lagerfeld (20 September 1881 in Hamburg – 4 July 1967 in Baden-Baden) was a German businessman, who in 1919 founded the German company Lagerfeld & Co, which imported evaporated milk. He was married to Elisabeth Bahlmann (1897–1978), daughter of the Catholic Centre Party local politician Karl Bahlmann, and they were the parents of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.
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Stauffenberg The Schenk von Stauffenberg family is a noble (see Uradel) Roman Catholic family from Swabia in Germany, whose best-known member was Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg – the key figure in the 1944 "20 July plot" to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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House of Württemberg The Württemberg family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Württemberg.
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Swiss Arms SAN Swiss Arms AG is a Swiss manufacturer of armaments. It was known as SIG Arms AG before 2000 when it was acquired by the German investors Michael Lüke and Thomas Ortmeier from parent company "Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft" (SIG). The Castelli Moser family from Lugano owns the 20% of the factory.
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Armi Jager Armi Jager, otherwise known as Adler Jager, was a German-Italian firearms manufacturer located in the small town of Loano, Italy.
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Rudolf Miele Rudolf Miele (November 4, 1929, in Gütersloh, Westphalia – August 19, 2004, in Gütersloh) was a German entrepreneur. From 1960 he was acting partner of the household accessory manufacturer "Miele". He was the grandson of the Miele founder Carl Miele.
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Fugger Fugger (] ) is a German family that was a historically prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held almost a monopoly on European copper market.
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Sauer Flugmotorenbau Sauer Flugmotorenbau (Sauer Aircraft Engines) or "Sauer" is a German manufacturer of aircraft engines based at Ober-Olm in Germany.
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MG 34 The "Maschinengewehr" 34, or MG 34, is a German recoil-operated air-cooled machine gun, first tested in 1929, introduced in 1934, and issued to units in 1936. It accepts the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge, and is generally considered the world's first general-purpose machine gun.
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7.5 cm FK 16 nA The 7.5 cm Feld Kanone 16 neuer Art (7.5 cm FK 16 nA) was a field gun used by Germany in World War II. Originally built as the World War I-era 7.7 cm FK 16, surviving guns in German service were re-barrelled during the early 1930s in the new standard 7.5 cm calibre. It was not modernized for motor towing and retained its original wooden spoked tires and two crew seats on the face of the gun shield.
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Hans Schmeisser Hans Schmeisser is a German weapons technical designer. The son of Louis Schmeisser, who was also a famous weapons technical designer, his notable achievement is his contribution to the construction of the German "weapon city" of Suhl.
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Von Galen The Von Galen family is an old, noble, Westphalian family, historically Roman Catholic, from the County of Mark.