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    Friedrich "Fritz" Wendel (21 February 1915 – 9 February 1975) was a German test pilot during the 1930s and 1940s. On 26 April 1939 Fritz Wendel set the world...
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    In 1972, he played Fritz Wendel, a German Jew passing as a Christian, in the Oscar-winning film version of Cabaret. Wepper's Wendel marries Marisa Berenson's...
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    Christopher Isherwood – William Prince Fraulein Schneider – Olga Fabian Fritz Wendel – Martin Brooks Sally Bowles – Julie Harris Natalia Landauer – Marian...
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  • Baron Maximilian von Heune Joel Grey as the master of ceremonies Fritz Wepper as Fritz Wendel Marisa Berenson as Natalia Landauer Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel...
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    Heinkel He 100 V8 Oranienburg, Germany FAI Database ID 8744 26 April 1939 Fritz Wendel 469.220 755.138 Messerschmitt Me 209 V1 Augsburg, Germany Piston-engined...
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    however, soon regained the lead when, on 26 April 1939, Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel, flying the Me 209 V1, set a new record of 755.14 km/h (469.22 mph)....
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    July 1942 in Leipheim near Günzburg, Germany, piloted by test pilot Fritz Wendel. This was almost nine months ahead of the British Gloster Meteor's first...
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    German Pilot The Colditz Story (1955) as Fischer I Am a Camera (1955) as Fritz Wendel Doublecross (1956) as Dmitri Krassin The Black Tent (1956) as Senior...
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    the wing section. The aircraft achieved its purpose when test pilot Fritz Wendel flew it to a new world speed record of almost 756 km/h (469 mph) on 26...
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    suffered a compressor blade failure during the flight, forcing test pilot Fritz Wendel to land under piston power alone. Following the successful test flights...
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  • 1968 ended with a blown piston. The previous record had been set by Fritz Wendel flying a German Messerschmitt Me 209 in 1939. The record-breaking was...
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    to that of the Bf 109E. The prototype was first flown by Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel on 2 September 1940, and the test flights continued despite troubles...
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  • Frederick Wendel (12 May 1886, in Koslin – 8 March 1960, in Kiel) was a German political activist, journalist, author and co ran the Book Circle book club...
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  • Neither the crew or a wreckage are ever found. 5 September Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel, Messerschmitt's chief test pilot, performing series of diving trials...
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  • as Clive Mortimer Lea Seidl as Fräulein Schneider Anton Diffring as Fritz Wendel Ina De La Haye as Herr Landauer Jean Gargoet as Pierre Stanley Maxted...
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    was shot down on 16 May 1940 south of Calais, it was later tested by Fritz Wendel. Spitfire PR IB, P9331. On 7 June 1940 was forced to land at Reims/Champagne...
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    Berlin – Kammerspiele) 1953: Julius Hays: Der Putenhirt – producer: Fritz Wendel (Deutsches Theater Berlin – Kammerspiele) 1953: Friedrich Wolf: Thomas...
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    several of the German squad to play, including an international debut by Fritz Walter. With Graf in goal, it was Walter who scored a hattrick in the 3–2...
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  • 40 victories during the war. April 26 – German Luftwaffe Flugkapitän Fritz Wendel sets a new world air speed record, reaching 755.59 km/h (469.50 mph)...
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  • Pezzi Caproni 161bis October 22, 1938 1939 755 km/h (469.22 mph) Germany Fritz Wendel Messerschmitt Me 209 V1 April 26, 1939 12,936 km (8,038 miles) Italy...
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  • third prototype makes its first flight under jet power, test-piloted by Fritz Wendel. Previous flight attempts starting in April 1941 by the first prototype...
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  • Leipheim with the Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow jet engine, piloted by Fritz Wendel. Michael Daunt became a farmer after the war in south-west Oxfordshire...
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    Me 262 first flew on 18 July 1942 at Leipheim in Bavaria, piloted by Fritz Wendel. In 2018 the site was developed for housing, to be known as Bentham Green...
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  • aged 20 and 21. Robert Menzies became 12th Prime Minister of Australia. Fritz Wendel set a new world air speed record of 469.2 mph (755 km/h) in a Messerschmitt...
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    Prince of Homburg (Heinrich von Kleist), incidental music conducted by Fritz Wendel, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, 1955 Metamorphose für Orgel (1970) Kleine...
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  • Berlin, Kammerspiele) 1953: Julius Hays: Der Putenhirt (Otto) – director: Fritz Wendel (Deutsches Theater Berlin, Kammerspiele) 1956: Peter Hacks: Eröffnung...
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  • Susi Leonardo Camillo: Fred Angélica Santos: Valerie Sérgio Moreno: Chad Wendel Bezerra: Ken, Pilot Gayan Pedro Alcântara: Billy Boo, Zino & the Snurks...
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  • Humbert de Wendel (4 February 1876 – 14 November 1954) was a French steelmaker who came from a long line of Lorrainian industrialists. He and his brother...
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  • starring Grete Reinwald, Fritz Alberti and Hans Brausewetter. Georg Burghardt as Frederick the Great Grete Reinwald as Baroness Wendel Hanni Reinwald as Her...
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    St. Wendel is the name of a Catholic parish and church in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Hesse, Germany, dedicated to Wendelin of Trier. The official name of...
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