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More than 200 of them were hanged there including Irma Grese, Josef Kramer and over a dozen of the perpetrators of the Stalag Luft III murders.

Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town on the river Weser in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Although Hamelin has a fine medieval old town with some remarkable buildings, the main attraction is the tale of the Pied Piper.

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In the 15th and 16th centuries Hamelin was a minor member of the Hanseatic League.In June 1634, during the Thirty Years' War, Lothar Dietrich Freiherr von Bà¶nninghausen, a General with the Imperial Army, lost the Battle of Oldendorf to Swedish General von Kniphausen, in the preface of which Hamelin was besieged by the Swedish army.Hamelin was surrounded by four fortresses, which gave it the nickname "Gibraltar Of The North".

In 1843 the people of Hamelin built a sightseeing tower out of the ruins of Fort George onto the Klà¼t Hill.