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John's mother was Eleanor, the powerful duchess of Aquitaine, who had a tenuous claim to Toulouse and Auvergne in southern France and was the former wife of King Louis VII of France. [7] The territories of Henry and Eleanor formed the Angevin Empire , named after Henry's paternal title as Count of Anjou and, more specifically, its seat in Angers .
The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which required German ...
Queen of the Romans (Latin: Regina Romanorum, German: Königin der Römer) or Queen of the Germans were the official titles of the queens consort of the medieval and early modern Kingdom of Germany. They were the wives of the King of the Romans (chosen by imperial election ), and are informally also known as German queen ( German : Deutsche ...
Walter Lohmann (born 30 December 1878 in Bremen; died 29 April 1930 in Rome) was a German Reichsmarine officer with the rank of captain. From 1920 to 1927 as commander of the Naval Transportation Division, Lohmann ran a secret rearmament and research program on behalf of the Ministry of the Reichswehr in an attempt to circumvent the Versailles restrictions.
King of Germany under his father Leopold I (Leopold I.) 18 July 1658 18 July 1658 5 May 1705 Son of Ferdinand III Joseph I (Josef I.) 23 January 1690 5 May 1705 17 April 1711 Son of Leopold I; King of Germany under his father 1690–1705 Charles VI (Karl VI.) 12 October 1711 12 October 1711 20 October 1740 Son of Leopold I Charles VII (Karl VII.)
[138] When the King met Duff Cooper, who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty over the Munich Agreement, he told Cooper that he respected people who had the courage of their convictions, but could not agree with him. [138] He wrote to his mother, Queen Mary, that "the Prime Minister was delighted with the results of his mission, as are we all."
Carl von Ossietzky (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ʔɔˈsi̯ɛtskiː] ⓘ; 3 October 1889 – 4 May 1938) was a German journalist and pacifist.He was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German rearmament.
Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.