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  1. Sigmaringen is a city in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, at the upper Danube, formerly Hohenzollern, capital of the Sigmaringen district.

    It was first mentioned in 1077 and is particularly renowned for its wonderfully preserved Sigmaringen Castle (ger.: Schloss Sigmaringen).

    On September 7, 1944, following the Allied invasion of France, Henri Philippe Pétain and members of the Vichy government cabinet fled to Germany and established a government in exile at Sigmaringen. Pétain returned to France in April 1945. French writers Céline and Lucien Rebatet, fearing for their lives because of their political and anti-Semitic writings, fled along with the Vichy government to Sigmaringen.

  2. I believe that individual mine-laying is out of scale for a strategic game. Airborne and naval mine deployment should be seen as part of bombers' and submarines' anti-shipping strikes.

    But I do think that the Baltic Red Fleet is over-represented in SC, in view of the extensive mine fields sealing of the Gulf of Finland -- see here for a rather amusing photograph of a German ship pretending to be a Finnish forest.

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