#german general

[portrait-paintings]

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and His Family

Artist: Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (German, 1758-1838)

Date: 1808-1809

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company. He invented the zeppelin airship.

[visoflex65]

Major-General Friedrich Kussin, the German Stadtkommandant of Arnhem, was killed by British paratroopers on during Operation Market Garden. His Citroën staff car was ambushed and riddled with bullets by No. 5 Platoon of the 1st Airborne Division's 3rd Parachute Battalion as he returned to the city from Wolfheze (September 17, 1944). Because of Kussin's appearance in this image, it was popularly—but incorrectly—believed that he had been scalped. In fact, while sitting in the car and with his head at an angle, he was struck by a bullet in the neck from below which exited through this head, excavating a large area of cranium bone. The incident occurred on the Utrechtseweg near the junction with the Wolfhezerweg, and it also resulted in the deaths of his driver, Josef Willeke, and his aide and translator, Max Köster.

[desertrat1]

Erwin Rommel in Africa

[girlactionfigure]

General Ingo Gerhartz of the German Air Force donated blood at the Sheba Hospital this morning.

[abdulaziz2026]

الجنرال الألماني إروين رومل، والملقب بثعلب الصحراء. ولهذا الجنرال صولات وجولات خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية خاصة في شمال أفريقيا.

German General Erwin Rommel, the desert fox. The Second World War.

[chubachus]

Carte de visite portrait of German field marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, c. 1870′s.

Source: Rijksmuseum.