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    Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (German: Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial...
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  • station. From 1933 until 1945, the school was named after Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, a German officer who led the Schutztruppe in German East Africa successfully...
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    Approximately 70,000 Africans worked on the plantations of GEA. General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck had served in German South West Africa and Kamerun. He led the German...
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    (1887–1944) Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur (1868–1951) Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964) Alfred von Lewinski (1831–1906) Ernst von Leyser (1889–1962) Curt...
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    successful commander of German East Africa, Major General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, who tied down British forces in Africa for the duration of the war...
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    Bruchmüller, German colonel and artillery officer in von Hutier's 8th Army. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general who led the German Schutztruppe in the...
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  • Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck). Margarete manages to break free, and raises the alarm, but the Royal Fusiliers manage themselves to escape with von Lettow-Vorbeck...
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    commander of the Schutztruppe, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, on defensive strategy. Ultimately von Lettow-Vorbeck prevailed with his guerrilla tactics and...
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    14,000 personnel. On 13 April 1914, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck assumed command in German East Africa. He led his units throughout...
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    fathers' former commanding officer, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. According to Der Spiegel journalists Heinz Höhne and Hermann Zolling, the premature end of the German...
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    Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck Kurt von Schleicher Hans von Seeckt Bernhard von Bülow Alexander von Kluck Werner von Blomberg Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk Eberhard...
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    Malwine von Lettow-Vorbeck (1827-1904) Jkr. Philipp Georg von Bismarck (1844–1894) ∞ 1) Elisabeth von der Osten (1849-1874) ∞ 2) Hedwig von Harnier (1858-1945)...
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    worth of arms and insisted that they were meant for Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa. That was futile, however, and the arms were...
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    African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918, Caliber. Pages 416-417. Heinz Höhne & Hermann Zolling (1972), The General...
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  • were in fact wooden dummies. In 1918 the German General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck and his remarkable Schutztruppe army of Askaris surrendered nearby...
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    Wilhelm Laverrenz (1879–1955) Annagrete Lehmann Bernhard Leopold Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964) Heinrich Lind later independent These DNVP members later...
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    Individually Wolffheim was close to the rightist General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck whilst along with Laufenberg he had met with Ernst Graf zu Reventlow...
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  • Lehr Paul Lejeune-Jung Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Karl Lohmann Hans Louis Ferdinand von Löwenstein zu Löwenstein Ferdinand von Lüninck Ernst Martin Max Maurenbrecher...
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  • player and engineer (d. 1915) 1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964) 1874 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (d. 1945)...
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    financier Maximilian Harden (1861–1927), journalist and editor Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870–1964), general Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), chemist...
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    colonial army leader there, General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. Using Germans and native Askaris, Lettow-Vorbeck launched multiple guerrilla raids against...
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    Herbert von Bismarck, as well as the grandson of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and elder brother of German Resistance figure Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen...
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    von Hutier - Commanded the 8th Army in 1917, notably in Operation Albion. He led the newly created 18th Army in the Spring Offensive Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck...
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    move in opposition to British forces, together with General d. Inf. Lettow-Vorbeck's colonial troops. Later served as the last President of the DKG, from...
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    königlich preussischen Armee von 1640–1840, p. 353, at Google Books Bernhard von Poten (1888), "Prittwitz, Joachim Bernhard von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie...
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    Björn Cederberg Gaudi, Robert (2017). African Kaiser: General Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-425-28371-4...
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    Research Network. Gaudi, Robert (2017). African Kaiser: General Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914–1918. Caliber. ISBN 978-1-84904-867-5...
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    had fought in the Schutztruppe under the command of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck during the East African Campaign were lionized as heroic and were...
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    to continue his work of winning Bavaria for the DNVP, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck did not have the same mass appeal and in 1928, the DNVP won only half...
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    and von Lettow-Vorbeck retreated into Portuguese East Africa. Assuming that the campaign was now essentially over (in fact von Lettow-Vorbeck conducted...
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