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Waakirchen () is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers (Nisei from the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion) rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village.

Key facts

German location.image_coa
DEU Waakirchen COA.svg
German location.image_plan
Waakirchen in MB.svg
German location.image_photo
Waakirchen.jpg
German location.image_caption
Waakirchen
German location.state
Bayern
German location.region
Oberbayern
German location.district
Miesbach
German location.elevation
759
German location.area
42.32
German location.postal_code
83666
German location.area_code
08021
German location.licence
MB
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
09 1 82 134
German location.divisions
7 Ortsteile
German location.website
www.waakirchen.de
German location.mayor
Norbert Kerkel
German location.leader_term
2020–26
German location.party
FW

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Official website

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Gemeinde Waakirchen

waakirchen.de

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Waakirchen () is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. At the end of World War II, Japanese American soldiers (Nisei from the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion) rescued concentration camp victims on a death march at this village.

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waakirchen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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