[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Landkreis Ploehnen

[Jerry Frank]

It is important to not use Kartenmeister to find Karolinenhof in Kries Ploehnen.  Kartenmeister only covers Prussia whereas Kries Ploehnen was in Russian Poland.


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Frank Stewner" <dr.stewner at t-online.de>
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:04 pm
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Landkreis Ploehnen
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org

> There is a German link to that in Wikipedia: one has to look on 
> the German Wikipedia under http://de.wikipedia.org/
> and search vor "Landkreis Ploehnen" and go for the first result.
> You will realise that that Landkreis was named for Plonsk after 
> the "Polenfeldzug" late 1939 and existed only until the 
> beginning of 1945. Otto is right again! It's like Litzmannstadt 
> for Lodz.
> 
> Concerning Karolinenhof: there are 20 locations mentionned by 
> Kartenmeister: 
> the link is http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
> 
> Frank
> 
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