Word: rupprecht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last time, seven German armies were concentrated on the French border. The Sixth and Seventh, under Prince Rupprecht and General Herringen, respectively, were massed above and below Strasbourg to drive into the valley of the Moselle. The northern five were to execute the famed "swinging door" plan of Count Alfred von Schlieffen...
Congregating at the Martyrs Memorial on the 288th anniversary of Charles I's beheading, Jacobite Oxford students proclaimed former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria "King of England, Scotland & Ireland...
...Wilhelm von Ludendorff, that eccentric old soldier refused it on the ground that such an honor was possible only in wartime and from the hand of a Sovereign. Germany's only other surviving field marshals are General August von Mackensen, Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria...
...King Edward cheerfully lent his Household Trumpeters to the old folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
...Last week Prince Rupprecht was the only man in his home town of Leutstetten to refuse to vote in Adolf Hitler's Ja election...