Lüneburg
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Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 50 km southeast of another Hanseatic city
Panorama of Lüneburg from the water tower, with St. Johannis Church in the foreground to the right
View from the Kalkberg towards the east, with all three main churches
View from the Brausebrücke bridge
Miniature of Lüneburg in the Sächsische Weltchronik, 13th century
Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military leader. He was the fourth and longest-serving Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, serving from 1929 to 1945. H
Lüneburg
…public as it lies within a military out-of-bounds area. Only a small monument on a nearby track alludes to the event. On 23 May 1945, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler took his own life in Lüneburg whilst in British Army custody by biting into a potassium cyanide capsule embedded in his teeth before he could be properly…
Himmler in 1942
Himmler as a child
Himmler in 1929
Himmler and Rudolf Hess in 1936, viewing a scale model of Dachau concentration camp