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  • (Prisoner-of-War Department, Ministry of War); Major Bauer (Prisoner-of-War Department); Captain Freiherr von Bönigk

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • The nearest success was in March 1943 when intended suicide bomber Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff set 10 minute fuses to his bombs at a museum Hitler was to tour with the bomber as his appointed guide.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009

  • Eberhard Freiherr von Medem Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1991, 18.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Mr. von und zu Guttenberg is descended from an old and noble lineage, so his official name is very long: Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.

    Discourse.net: Is Wikipedia Like Fox News? 2009

  • Eberhard Freiherr von Medem Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1991, 18.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Among the many dedications to Caroline was a tribute from the founder of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, an Orientalist scholar who supplied Goethe with Persian poetry.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • When first there were rumors that he would be appointed to the post, someone changed his Wikipedia entry and added the name ‘Wilhelm,’ so Wikipedia stated his full name as: Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Wilhelm Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.

    Discourse.net: Is Wikipedia Like Fox News? 2009

  • In 1912, Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was born to a family of aristocrats in Prussia.

    Exploring 'Von Braun' getAbstract 2010

  • Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff and Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst even tried to do so by suicide bombing.

    Berlinski's Wisdom 2010

  • Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944 with a briefcase bomb, died Thursday.

    links for 2008-05-04 « Skid Roche 2008

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