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    Goethe-Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Goethe Medal for Art and Science) is a German award. It was authorized by Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg to...
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    Werner von Blomberg Carl Clewing Theodor Duesterberg Wilhelm Heye Paul von Hindenburg Max Hoffmann Hermann von Kuhl Erich Ludendorff Max Ludwig Georg Alexander...
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    combats of Hangard-en-Santerre, La Montagnde de Paris, then in piercing the Hindenburg Line, a combat battle which would later be designated as the anniversary...
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    demonstrated by the fact that they came before the main assault on the Hindenburg Line and against a still-capable army that offered strong resistance to...
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    Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-2485-3. Major R. E. Priestley, Breaking the Hindenburg Line: The Story of the 46th Division, London: T.F. Unwin, 1919 (at archive...
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    fighting of 1918, including at the Battle of Amiens and the Storming of the Hindenburg Line. He later served an important term as Chief of the General Staff...
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    unit. For example, there are many units wearing the fourragère of the médaille militaire, whereas only six units wore the medal on their flags. It was...
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    1916; then found glory on 14 September 1918 during the piercing of the Hindenburg Line, under orders of regimental commander Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Frédéric...
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    Hermann von Hanneken (soldier) Heino von Heimburg Wilhelm Heye Paul von Hindenburg Franz von Hipper Henning von Holtzendorff Gerhard Kauffmann Wilhelm Keitel...
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    year. He contributed portraits of Generals Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg. For the remainder of the war, he was an official war artist. After the...
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    of artillery equipped with poison gases led by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. Russian defenses were manned by 500 soldiers of the 226th Infantry Regiment...
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    Military Operations France and Belgium 1917: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras (IWM & Battery Press 1992 ed.). London:...
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    western frontier of Germany before World War II. It was also known as the Hindenburg Line. Kershaw (2001). Hitler: 1936–1945, Nemesis, p. 265. Mitcham & Mueller...
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    (PREUSSEN. Düppeler Sturmkreuz am Band für Reservetruppen), 1865". Medal-Medaille.com. Retrieved 25 February 2021. "Verdienstkreuz für Frauen und Jungfrauen...
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    Australian command, notably in the Battle of Hamel and the breaching of the Hindenburg Line at St Quentin Canal, precipitating the final German collapse. Pershing...
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    Antje Boetius (category Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille winners)
    city life"). Her grandfather Eduard Boëtius worked as a navigator on the Hindenburg zeppelin and was one of the few surviving crew members of the Lakehurst...
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    the Meuse–Argonne offensive in France, which was intended to breach the Hindenburg line and force the Germans to surrender. He earned decorations from several...
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    command believing this was a defensive cover for the planned retreat to the Hindenburg Line. In early March, the final batch of men unsuitable for infantry were...
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    lost their commander, commandant Husson de Sampigny. September 1918 – Hindenburg Line In August 1918, the regiment recuperated the wounded and filled the...
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  • greatest commander in a war. Awarded only twice, to Blücher in 1813 and to Hindenburg in 1918; the Star of 1939 was created but never awarded, and is now at...
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    Ebert, Max Liebermann, Paul von Hindenburg and Max Slevogt. 1935 A second version of the "Dead Warrior" for the Hindenburg Crypt in the Tannenberg Memorial...
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    John Ford Elkington (category Recipients of the Médaille militaire (France))
    ISBN 978-0-00-751974-3. Guest, Philip; McPhail, Helen (12 September 2000). St Quentin: Hindenburg Line. Pen and Sword. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-85052-789-6. Viscount Montgomery...
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  • Heinrich Brüning told an audience in Stuttgart that the re-election of Hindenburg would pave the way for a settlement of the reparations problem, while...
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    actor of national importance). Upon the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in August, he signed the Aufruf der Kulturschaffenden to merge of the...
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    Battle of Bazentin, Battle of Flers–Courcelette, the Advance to the Hindenburg Line and the Battle of Cambrai. In February 1918, they left France for...
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    matched until the end of the twentieth century. Kronfeld was awarded the Hindenburg Cup in 1930. In the same year he undertook the first flight from a mountain...
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    Aigle d'Or the city of Nice, Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star 1979 Médaille de la Paix (Peace Medal) of the city of Verdun 1980 Medal of Merit of the...
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    attacking in Flanders and Western Belgium where they first smashed the Hindenburg line[citation needed]. Meanwhile, the more exhausted French army managed...
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    Battle of the Canal du Nord in 1918. The hamlet of La Vacquerie lay on the Hindenburg Line. By the end of hostilities in 1918, the entire commune was almost...
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    December Battle of Cambrai, where the RGLI's role was to go through the Hindenburg Line after the first wave and take 'Nine Wood' to the north of Marcoing...
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