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Garske is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charlotte "Lotte" Garske was a German political activist who resisted the country's Nazi Government. She was executed in Berlin on 16 December 1943.

Erich Garske was a German political activist (KPD) and, after 1933, a resistance activist. He was executed by the Nazis in December 1943.

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Garske is an unincorporated community in Ramsey County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota.

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