Weselberg

Weselberg is a town in the southern Land Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It has 1,475 inhabitants. The sister portion of the town on the western outskirts is Zeselberg. The chief economic activity is agriculture.

The coat of arms was granted March 23, 1983. The components are made up of wheat ears (agricultural character), balls (from the descendants of Franz von Sickingen, who owned the village until 1793), and the chapel (a typical part of such a town).

Weselberg was the setting for a speech in 1941 by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, in which it was allegedly revealed the "the aim of the campaign in the East [Russia] is to reduce the Slav population by 30,000,000."

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