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  Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (January 12, 1893 - October 15, 1946) was a prominent and early member of the Nazi party and one of the main architects of Nazi Germany.
During World War I he flew in the Luftwaffe together with Manfred von Richthofen, the famous "Red Baron".
He was the last commander of the Richthofen Fighter Squadron and finished the war as an 'ace', with twenty-two confirmed kills and the medals Pour le Merite and the Iron Cross.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Hermann_Goering.html   (647 words)

  
 von Richthofen
Manfred von Richthofen was born the son of Major Albrecht von Richthofen, a Prussian nobleman and his wife, Kunigunde.
Richthofen decides to paint parts of his aircraft red, in part to identify himself easily to his allies on the ground (whom he feared would otherwise shoot at him).
Richthofen writes an angry letter to Berlin, and is visited by aircraft designer Anthony Fokker, who literally goes to the trenches to observe aircraft.
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 Richthofen - FUTEF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Frieda von Richthofen (August 11, 1879 - August 11, 1956), a distant relative of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen, became famous as the wife of the British novelist D. Lawrence.
Else von Richthofen (October 8, 1874 - December 22, 1973), a distant relative of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen, is known as one of the first female social scientists in Germany, wife of the German economist Edgar Jaffé as well as lover of t...
Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen (born 20 November 1933 in Breslau) is a German diplomat.
futef.com /q/cats:[Richthofen]   (437 words)

  
 Gerd von Rundstedt Summary
General von Rundstedt had doubts about the survivability of these units without infantry support, and asked for a pause while they caught up; this has given rise to the misconception that the halt that allowed the British to evacuate the Continent at Dunkirk was of Rundstedt's making.
Von Rundstedt was promoted to Field Marshal on July 19, 1940 and took part in the planning of Operation Sealion.
When the invasion was called off, von Rundstedt took control of occupation forces and was given responsibility to develop the coastal defences in the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
www.bookrags.com /Gerd_von_Rundstedt   (1734 words)

  
 NOVA | Transcripts | Who Killed the Red Baron? | PBS
Manfred von Richthofen was born into minor Prussian nobility.
Richthofen had the advantage of speed and armament, so what then happened was a deadly game of tail chasing.
Von Richthofen's personal tally was now 52 kills.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/3011_redbaron.html   (6583 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/vonrichthofen
Richthofen writes an angry letter to Berlin, and is visited by aircraft designer Anthony Fokker, who literally goes to the trenches to observe his aircraft in action.
Richthofen followed the erratic path of the novice pilot until a single bullet, shot from behind him, passed diagonally through his chest.
Manfred's eventual successor was Hermann Göring (who would later become the head of the Luftwaffe and a particularly infamous Nazi), who chose to paint his aircraft completely white, ending the reign of the blood-red German fighers.
www.myspace.com /vonrichthofen   (1566 words)

  
 Manfred von Richthofen Biography (Soldier/Aviator) — FactMonster.com
Baron Manfred von Richthofen was the most famous flying ace of World War I, a German fighter pilot who was known to the English as "The Red Baron." Von Richthofen joined the army in 1911 and was a lieutenant in the German cavalry when the war broke out in 1914.
Richthofen, who had painted his plane red, was known in Germany as "Der Rote Kampfflieger" ("the red fighter pilot") and he became a national hero for his derring-do in the skies.
Richthofen, Manfred, Baron von - Richthofen, Manfred, Baron von, 1892–1918, German aviator in World War I. He was credited...
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 Manfred von Richthofen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richthofen is also known as "le Baron Rouge", "le Diable Rouge" ("Red Devil") or "Le Petit Rouge" ("Little Red") in French, and the "Red Knight" or the "Red Baron" in the English-speaking world.
His grandnephew, Baron Dr. Hermann von Richthofen, was German Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1993, and his name made him a media favorite.
Another grandnephew, Manfred Alberto von Richthofen, was murdered with his wife Marisia, in their home in São Paulo, Brazil, on 31 October 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen   (2833 words)

  
 The Red Baron is back in the German skies
Germany is preparing to break a 61-year-old taboo by celebrating the life of World War One flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the Red Baron.
Von Richthofen may thus be a German fighting hero but the director is careful to depict him as a rebel against the establishment.
It is the British who have always hailed von Richthofen as a brilliant pilot.
news.webindia123.com /news/articles/World/20061006/471428.html   (422 words)

  
 hermann goering | biography (1893-1946)
Göring, as a child, was brought up near Nürnberg, in the small castle of Veldenstein, whose owner was Hermann, Ritter von Epenstein, a Jew, who was, until 1913, the lover of Göring's mother and the godfather of her children.
He had the ear of the 84-year-old president, Paul von Hindenburg, and used his position to outmaneuver the successive chancellors, particularly Kurt von Schleicher and Franz von Papen, until Hindenburg was finally forced to invite Hitler to become chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933.
Only in 1967 was it revealed that he had left a note explaining that the poison capsule had been secreted all the while in a container of pomade.
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 Hermann Goering
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich, Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim on January 12, 1893.
The creation of the state-owned Hermann Goering Works in 1937, a gigantic industrial nexus which employed 700,000 workers and amassed a capital of 400 million marks, enabled him to accumulate a huge fortune.
Goering's cunning, brutality and ambition were displayed in the cabal he engineered against the two leading army Generals, von Fritsch and von Blomberg, whom he helped to bring down in February 1938, in the misplaced hope that he would step into their shoes.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/goering.html   (1444 words)

  
 HERMANN-Coburg Teddybären   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1892-1918) was known to be the most successful German fighter pilot in WW1.
Richthofen laid down the foundation stone for his legend when he ordered his triple-decker plane to be painted red.
He became a legend in the eyes of friends and the enemy because of his behavior during the confrontations, which in spite of a war situation focused on fairness.
www.hermann.de /kat2000/e12.htm   (131 words)

  
 Manfred Frhr von Richthofen
Richthofen : Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron ©1993, Peter Kilduff.
Von Richthofen : The Legend Evaluated by Richard Townshend Bickers
Historians have argued for eight decades whether Richthofen was shot down from the air or ground.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
HERMANN WILHELM GOERING, 1893-1946), German Nazi political leader and chief of the air force.
Goering (or Goring) was born at Rosenheim, Bavaria, on Jan. 12, 1893, the son of a high colonial official.
Goering was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials but committed suicide in Nuremberg on Oct. 15, 1946, the day before his scheduled execution.
gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_goering.html   (538 words)

  
 Biography for Manfred von Richthofen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richthofen's personal squadron in JG2, Jasta 11, all painted their craft in red with different colored highlights, in emulation of Richthofen.
The famous Nazi officer Hermann Göring flew in his squadron during World War I. Richthofen was the highest-scoring pilot in the First World War with 80 confirmed kills (and quite possibly as many as 100 when unconfirmed kills are counted).
Richthofen's personal squadron in Jagdgeschwader 2, Jagdstaffel 11, all painted their craft in red with different colored highlights, in emulation of Richthofen.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0902866/bio   (580 words)

  
 Biography for Hermann Göring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hermann Göring was born on January 12, 1893, in Rosenheim, Bavaria, the son of a prominent judge.
During the war he racked up 22 aerial kills, earning the coveted Blue Max and a promotion to commanding officer of Manfred von Richthofen's "Flying Circus" in 1918 after that famous ace was killed in action.
In 1944, Hermann Göring was offered an honorary commission as an SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer (Colonel General), in particular due to his heavy involovement with anti-Jewish laws and the execution of the Final Solution.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0351425/bio   (1058 words)

  
 NOVA | Who Killed the Red Baron? | TV Program Description | PBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scores of Allied pilots during World War I surely muttered, "Curse you, Red Baron!" as the notorious Baron Manfred von Richthofen closed in with guns blazing from his distinctive bright-red German fighter.
Hermann von Richthofen, grand-nephew of the Baron and former German ambassador to NATO, reminisces about his great uncle's rise from mounted cavalry officer to master of a completely new style of warfare that pitted fast, maneuverable flying machines against each other in deadly duels in the sky.
Though he managed a rough landing, Richthofen was soon dead.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/redbaron/about.html   (559 words)

  
 Hermann Goering
Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim, Bavaria, in 1893.
Young Hermann grew up in friends' homes and in military schools while his parents were abroad.
Göring was appointed head of the Richthofen Group in July, much to annoyance of many aces in that group with 40+ kills.
www.acepilots.com /wwi/ger_goering.html   (1177 words)

  
 - Chapter 5
They were going a little too fast for me. Richthofen had leaned back in his chair and was looking at me in a satisfied way, as though everything was settled now.
There was a note of anger in Richthofen's tone as he spoke up.
I realized why his name was familiar to me. Manfred Rittmeister, Friherr von Richthofen, Germany's leading ace.
www.baen.com /chapters/W200505/0743499034___5.htm   (2267 words)

  
 Wolfram Richthofen
Wolfram Richthofen was born in Gut Barzdorf, Germany in 1895.
This included the use of Junkers Stuka dive bombers to give air support to Walther von Reichenau and his 6th Army in Belgium and General Paul von Kleist and his forces in France.
Richthofen then had the task of supplying General Freidrich von Paulus and his 6th Army that was encircled in Stalingrad.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERrichthofen.htm   (414 words)

  
 Movie Info for Von Richthofen and Brown on MSN Movies
This film of the wartime exploits of Baron Von Richthoven, who was also known as the "Red Baron," was a relatively lavish Corman-brothers production, and is directed by Roger Corman.
The evolution of airborne warfare from being a sporting game between gentlemen to its use as an instrument of total war is integral to the story.
Von Richthoven (John Phillip Law), who becomes an air ace and an important German hero, was an early aeronautical rival of Hermann Goering (Barry Primus).
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=12993   (189 words)

  
 First World War (WWI) Planes -- Great War Flying Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The son of a distinguished army officer, Hermann Göring was commissioned in the Prussian army on 22 June 1912.
In 1914, he served with an infantry regiment in the Vosges region before he was hospitalized with rheumatoid arthritis.
Following the death of Wilhelm Reinhard, Göring assumed command of Manfred von Richthofen's JG 1 on 8 July 1918.
www.greatwarflyingmuseum.com /aces/germany/hermann_goring.html   (326 words)

  
 Richthofen Family [Archive] - The Aerodrome Forum
11 July 2000, 09:30 AM That would be Hermann von Richthofen, a distant relative of MvR.
I actually have a news clipping showing HvR sitting in the cockpit of an RAF Harrier.
11 July 2000, 11:56 AM As of about 1998, Jan Freiherr von Richthofen was the head of Amnesty International in Germany and/or Europe.
www.theaerodrome.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-9012.html   (356 words)

  
 Anecdote - Hermann Wilhelm Goering [also Göring] - Hermann Goering Apology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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While shuffling along a crowded railroad platform in Rome one day, Hermann Goering collided with an Italian aristocrat.
[Trivia: When German flying ace Baron von Richthofen was killed in action in World War I, it was Goering who assumed command of his "Flying Circus" fighter squadron.]
www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=5883   (167 words)

  
 Richthofen Symposium
Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Development of German Geography
Ferdinand von Richthofen and the Methodology of Geography
Stahnsdorf and Potsdam: Ferdinand von Richthofen's grave in Stahnsdorf — Potsdam : Historic core; Hohenzollern palaces, landscape of “Prussian Arcadia”
www.richthofen-symposium.de /Programme.htm   (613 words)

  
 95076: NATO: Congress Addresses Expansion of the Alliance
This last view is widely shared among the European allies, who believe that the impulse for divergent responses of member states to the conflict in Bosnia would only be exacerbated were new states to join and new ethnic conflicts or regional crises to emerge.
Some allies argue that expansion of the European Union must take place first to build political and economic stability in central Europe before consideration of steps in the security arena, which are much more likely, in their view, to antagonize Russia.
Cracks are appearing in the alliance's cohesion, by Ambassador Hermann von Richthofen, Financial Times.
www.fas.org /man/crs/95-076.htm   (7384 words)

  
 BBC World Anchorman Nik Gowing on the Power of New Media
The 100-strong audience included many television, radio and print journalists.
Nik Gowing with Dr. Hermann von Richthofen and Gebhardt von Moltke.
Today there is no escaping digital cameras - they are present at every trouble spot and capture every disaster.
www.britischebotschaft.de /en/news/events/nik_gowing.htm   (311 words)

  
 Channel 4 - History - Germany
Dogfight: The mystery of the Red Baron – interviews
Interviews with historians Philip Sabin and Norman Franks and with the Red Baron's nephew Baron Hermann von Richthofen.
German general whose tactics led to a war characterised by stasis and deadlock.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/browse/germany.html   (511 words)

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