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Lake View Cemetery

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For other places with the same name, see Lake View Cemetery (disambiguation). Lake View Cemetery The James A. Garfield Memorial in Lake View cemetery. Location of Lake View Cemetery Show map of Ohio Lake View Cemetery (Cleveland) Show map of Cleveland Details Established 1869 Location Cleveland, Ohio Country United States Coordinates 41°30′49″N 81°35′55″W  /  41.5135°N 81.5986°W  / 41.5135; -81.5986 Coordinates: 41°30′49″N 81°35′55″W  /  41.5135°N 81.5986°W  / 41.5135; -81.5986 Type Public Size 285 acres (115 ha) No. of graves 104,000 Website LakeViewCemetery.com Find a Grave Lake View Cemetery The Rockefeller family obelisk Eliot Ness marker Lake View Cemetery is on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, along the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights borders. More than 104,000 people are buried at Lake View, [1] with more than 700 burials each year. There are 70 acres (0.28 km 2 ) remaining for future ...

Karl Saur

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Karl-Otto Saur (February 16, 1902 in Düsseldorf – July 28, 1966 in Pullach) was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for armaments and war production in Germany during the Nazi era and de jure last defence minister of the Third Reich. Saur was an engineer by profession. After graduation, he joined Thyssen AG, where he became the director of the August Thyssen-Hütte. He was a member of the NSDAP from 1931. He joined the National Socialist Guild of German Engineers and the Todt Organization where he rose to be the right-hand man to Fritz Todt. Following Todt's death in a 1942 plane crash, Saur became official deputy to the new armaments minister Albert Speer. [1] Saur was seen as particularly ruthless in the enforcement of military targets, was involved in all aspects of increasing production including orders that regulated the flow of slave labour towards the end of World War II. From March 1944, he managed the day-to-day operations of the Jägerstab (Fighter Staff), a task...

Herbert Backe

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Herbert Backe Herbert Backe in 1942 Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture In office 23 May 1942 – 30 April 1945 Chancellor Adolf Hitler Preceded by Richard Walther Darré Succeeded by Position abolished Personal details Born Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe ( 1896-05-01 ) 1 May 1896 Batumi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire Died 6 April 1947 (1947-04-06) (aged 50) Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany Nationality German Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party Alma mater University of Göttingen Profession Agronomist Herbert Friedrich Wilhelm Backe (1 May 1896 – 6 April 1947) was a German politician and SS functionary during the Nazi era. He developed and implemented the Hunger Plan that envisioned death by starvation of millions of Slavic and Jewish "useless eaters" following Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. This plan was developed during the planning phase for...

Erich Koch

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Erich Koch Gauleiter of East Prussia In office 1928–1945 Leader Adolf Hitler Preceded by Bruno Gustav Scherwitz Succeeded by none Oberpräsident of East Prussia In office May 1933 – 9 April 1945 Preceded by Wilhelm Kutscher Succeeded by none Reichskommissar for Ukraine In office 1 September 1941 – 29 August 1944 Appointed by Adolf Hitler Preceded by none Succeeded by Curt von Gottberg Reichskommissar for the Ostland In office 26 September 1944 – 2 February 1945 ( de facto ousted 13 October 1944) Appointed by Adolf Hitler Preceded by Hinrich Lohse Succeeded by none Personal details Born 19 June 1896 Elberfeld, German Empire Died 12 November 1986 (aged 90) Barczewo, People's Republic of Poland Political party NSDAP Erich Koch (19 June 1896 – 12 November 1986) was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was Chief of Civil Administration ( Ch...