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  Bernstorff Count Johann Heinrich von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von (1862-1939), German diplomat, great-grandnephew of Danish statesman and diplomat Count Andreas von...
Bernstorff, Count Andreas Peter von (1735-1797), Danish statesman and diplomat.
Born in Hannover, Germany, Bernstorff was educated in German and...
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 Dannecker Johann Heinrich von - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thünen, Johann Heinrich von (1783-1850), Prussian landowner and economic theorist best known for the model of agricultural land use that bears his...
Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von (1830-1914), German novelist, poet, and dramatist, who was noted for the realism and structural perfection of his...
Goethe in the Campagna (1786-1788) by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bernstorff,
Bernstorff, Johann Hartwig Ernst BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HARTWIG ERNST [Bernstorff, Johann Hartwig Ernst], 1712-72, Danish politician, of German (Hanoverian) origin.
Bernstorff, Andreas Peter BERNSTORFF, ANDREAS PETER [Bernstorff, Andreas Peter], 1735-97, Danish politician; nephew of Johann Hartwig Ernst Bernstorff.
Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HEINRICH, GRAF VON [Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von], 1862-1939, German diplomat.
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 Bernstorff Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bernstorff Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bernstorff, Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von (1712-1772), Danish statesman, born in Hannover, Germany.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard: picture, Karlskirche, Vienna, Austria
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 CI Reader Volume 1 Chapter 3
The next operational plan conducted by von Papen and Albert was to obtain U.S. passports for use by German army reservists residing in the United States to return to Germany to fight against its enemies.
Von Wedell devised a plan to have American longshoremen, sailors and street bums in the New York environs apply for American passports.
At their first meeting, von Kleist never questioned the officer's bona fides but proceeded to tell the officer about an individual named Dr. Walter T. Scheele, who was using von Kleist in his laboratory in Hoboken.
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 OurStory:: Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Count Johann von Bernstorff was the German Ambassador to the United States and Mexico between 1908 and 1917.
Von Bernstorff was given $150 million to buy munitions in the U.S. and to conduct other espionage activities in a neutral country whose loyalties to the enemy were widely suspected in Berlin.
Von Bernstorff insisted he was only acting in his role as German Ambassador, but the acts of sabotage started as soon as he returned from Berlin.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Count von Bernstorff
Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (1862-1939) served, until his recall in 1917, as German Ambassador to the United States.
Bernstorff presented his diplomatic credentials to Washington in 1908 and quickly established a popular reputation among diplomatic and political circles for his apparent moderation (a rarity in Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany).
Despite his personal magnetism Bernstorff found his position in Washington strained by German embracement of the highly controversial policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, which exacted a heavy toll on American merchant shipping (and which Bernstorff opposed).
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 BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HAR... - Online Information article about BERNSTORFF, JOHANN HAR...
COUNT VON (1712-1772), Danish statesman, who came of a very See also:
It is remarkable, however, that though Bernstorff ruled Denmark for twenty years he never learnt Danish.
Bernstorff was not only one of the ablest but one of the noblest and most conscientious statesmen of his day.
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 World War One - German Plots And Propaganda In America
Concerning the operations of the arson and murder squad organized by von Bernstorff, Dumba and their associates, it is only necessary to turn to the records of the criminal courts of the United States and Canada.
Von Papen delivered to him a flat order to blow up the bridge and he gave him $700 for the purpose of perpetrating the out-rage.
Mexico was the happy hunting-ground for pro-German plotters, and the German Ambassador in Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, was the leader in all the intrigues.
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 Bernstorff Johann Heinrich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von: Information From Answers.com - Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von, 1862–1939, German diplomat.
Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von - Columbia Encyclopedia.
AllRefercom - Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich, Graf von (Scandinavian.
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 Journal of Intelligence History
Going back to World War I, Werner Otto von Hentig and his famed expedition to Afghanistan are correctly identified, but Johann Heinrich Count von Bernstorff, Imperial ambassador in Washington, D.C., is incorrectly mentioned as a participant in intelligence activities against the neutral United States.
Instead of Count Bernstorff’s memoirs or respective historical studies available on both sides of the Atlantic, the source given is a less than reliable journalistic account.
If Johann Heinrich Count von Bernstorff is listed in connection with German sabotage in World War I, what made the authors decide to skip Albrecht Count von Bernstorff, the well-known diplomat who during the Nazi period travelled abroad and cultivated significant contacts until he was picked up and murdered by the SS?
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 Genocide1915.info - The Armenian Genocide History Chronology
Talaat advises German Ambassador Count Hans von Wangenheim that the war is the only propitious moment to conclude the Armenian Question.
German Marshal Otto Liman von Sanders reports that the deportations were planned by the Committee of Union and Progress, and received the approval of all the ministries, and that the execution of the plans was placed in the hands of the governors-general, their subordinates, and the police.
The German ambassador in the United States, Johann Heinrich Count von Bernstorff, suggests that the stories about massacres in Turkey are fabricated.
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 Military Leaders - LIVE AND INTERNET AUCTION PART II
HEINRICH HIMMLER (1900 - 1945) Hitler's Chief of the Gestapo placed in charge of security and responsible for the construction and operation of extermination camps.
It was essential in those days to keep the secret jealously guarded, and probably my part in it would not have become known had it not been publicly disclosed by the late Lord Balfour after the publication of Mr.
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM COUNT JOHANN HEINRICH VON BERNSTORFF German ambassador to the United States and Mexico from 1908 to 1917, reportedprimarily to Zimmerman during the war, and was the intended recipient of the famous Zimmerman Telegram which helped propel the U.S. into World War I. Scarce T.L.S. on official letterhead, 1p.
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 German and English Propaganda in WW I by Jonathan A. Epstein - full text
Count von Bernstorff noted the utility of libraries, especially the Library of Congress, in spreading the message around.
The latter was a telegram from the German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Bernstorff, to be relayed to the German ambassador in Mexico City, promising the Mexicans much of the land they had lost to their northern neighbor seventy years previously, should Mexico join in an attack on America as a Central Power.
The German Secretary of State Gottlieb von Jagow claimed that "the moral responsibility" for the war lay with Britain who encouraged the Belgians to resist and encouraged the "chauvinistic anti-German tendencies in France and Russia." Moreover, Britain’s failure to restrain the flames of a war that Germany fanned put the blame on the former.
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 German states before 1945
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 Bibliography - Hilfskreuzer SMS Moewe.
COUNT VON LUCKNER, by Edwin P. Hoyt Jr., McKay, 1969.
WIR VON DER MOEWE, by Heinrich Liersemann, Gustov Fock, 1916.
AUF KAPERKURS, by Walter von Schoen, Verlag Ullstein, 1934.
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 Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von - MSN Encarta
Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von - MSN Encarta
Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von (1862-1939), German diplomat, great-grandnephew of Danish statesman and diplomat Count Andreas von Bernstorff....
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 TIME.com: -- Oct. 16, 1939 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Heinrich ("Henry the Long," "Uncle Sahm") Sahm, 62, first (and tallest: 6 ft. 6 in.) president of the Danzig Senate, onetime Mayor of Berlin (he was removed for patronizing Jewish stores), German Minister to Norway; in Oslo, Norway.
Cora C. Colburn, 72, culinary authority with the rank of professor, director of Yale University Dining Halls, where she fed 3,500 Yalemen daily at an average charge of 42¢ per Yaleman; of a heart attack in her office; in New Haven, Conn.
Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 76, exiled German diplomat, pre-World War I German Ambassador to U. S.; of heart disease; in Geneva, Switzerland.
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In this message Germany announced the decision which it had adopted earlier that month at the council at Pless; namely, the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain, France, Italy and in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Since it has unhappily proved impossible to safeguard our neutral rights by diplomatic means against the unwarranted infringements they are suffering at the hands of _ _ ^1 Bernstorff to Lansing, 31 January 1917, _PWW_, 41:74-9.
Fundamental choices including whether or not to send an expeditionary force to Europe, and if so when and where best to exercise America's military influence, remained to be decided in the weeks and months ahead.^30 _ _ ^30 "An Address to a Joint Session of Congress," 2 April 1917, _PWW_, 41:519-27.
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 The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
The Dakota Freie Presse had been owned by my father Johann Christian Wenzlaff, (Sr.) (1827-1894), and later by my brother Salomon, but when I took employment with the newspaper, it was owned and operated by my brother and a partner under the name of Krause and Wenzlaff.
Johannes Brendel, and Dr. Henry E. Fritsch came to the DFP through a merger of the Dakota Rundschau with the DFP.
The dissertation was submitted to the faculty at the University of Königsberg in East Prussia.
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 Saboage!
At the home of Cologne banker Baron Kurt von Schroeder a secret bargain was struck with arch-saboteur Franz von Papen that brought ex-Reichswehr spy Hitler to power.
Ludwig's real leader was Ulrich von der Osten, high officer in German Military Intelligence, killed by a taxi cab in Times Square, March 1941.
- such as Dr. Consantin Dumba, Ambassador of Austria-Hungary and one of the 1st diplomats to be expelled from the U.S. - such as Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, German Ambassador to Washington who supervised sabotage operations in America.
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 C.N.A. | The CN Journal
This represents the German Ambassador to the USA, Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff warning the American people about being passenger on a ship destined to be sailing in war zone waters.
Kolnische Volkszeitung, May 10th, 1915." This paper goes on to describe how the designer put guns and airplanes on the deck of the ship but neglected to put on the women and children who were on board on the medal.
In response to this propaganda, on January 18, 1917, Baron von Speidel of the War Office of the Kingdom of Bavaria wrote a memo to the I, II, and III Army Corps telling them that the "further manufacture and sale of the Lusitania medal...
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 AB Apr 01, 2001 Here's Your Chance to Buy Some Rare Chinese Works of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Auspiciously designed with bates and shou characters symbolising eternity and prosperity, this square chest served as a storage box for ice blocks to keep the air cool during the hot season.
Once owned by the German Ambassador to China, Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, during the early 20th century, this piece is expected to fetch HK$700,000-$900,000.
Also included in the sale is a rare large Imperial carved polychrome lacquer peach-shaped box and cover, estimated at HK$300,000-$500,000.
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His interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach led him to use a piccolo trumpet in his arrangement of Penny Lane and, although the Mellotron at the start of Strawberry Fields Forever belonged to Lennon, it was McCartney who played it.
It instructed the ambassador to approach the Mexican government with a proposal to form an alliance against the United States.
Because of its importance, the message had been sent from Berlin to the German ambassador in Washington, D.C. Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, for onward transmission to their ambassador in Mexico, von Eckardt, by three separate routes.
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 The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library: Visit the Museum - Additional Information: Allied Propaganda Copy of Karl ...
At top, in German, are the words "Business Above All" mocking the Cunard Line for willingly placing passenger's lives at risk for profit.
At left is a man reading a paper on which are the German words for "U-Boat danger", while behind him is the figure of the German ambassador, Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, reminding him that Germany has placed a warning advertisement in the same newspaper as the Cunard Lines sailing schedule.
When British Intelligence obtained a copy of the medal they realized that Goetz had the wrong date.
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 Emancipation of the serfs Download More...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The spelling tzar with 'z' is also very common, and represents an alternative transliteration of the first letter ц.
The spelling czar originated with the Austrian diplomat Baron Sigismund von Herberstein, whose Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii (1549) (literally Notes on Muscovite Affairs) was the main source of knowledge of Russia in early modern western Europe.
It is not found in any of the Slavic languages, but is the primary spelling adopted by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Edition, 2003), with tsar offered only as a variant.
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