Württemberg army high command, WW1 (L-R, T-B)
Duke Wilhelm von Urach, Count of Württemberg, Gen. Friedrich von Gerok, Gen. Hermann von Staabs, King Wilhelm II, Gen. Theodor Freiherr von Watter, GFM Duke Albrecht of Württemberg and QM Gen. Wilhelm Gröner. ⚫️🔴
Duke Albrecht of Württemberg, commander of the German 4th Army and later “Army Group Albrecht” which consisted of the 19th Army and three detached armies.
Duke Albrecht of Württemberg, oddly enough, did not command the Königlich Württembergisches Armee-Korps for most of the war. It was not until September of 1918 that XIII Corps came under Albrecht’s jurisdiction as part of detached army “C”. ⚫️🔴
Württemberg Ski Company 2nd Lieutenant and Württemberg Mountain Battalion 2nd Lieutenant, 1917 🇩🇪⛷🏔
More Württemberg ski troops 🔴⚫️ 🗻 🎿
Duke Wilhelm von Urach, Count of Württemberg and General of Cavalry in the Württemberger army and who was briefly King of Lithuania 🇱🇹 toward the end of the war, was related to the Grimaldis as his father had married Princess Florestine of Monaco 🇲🇨.
One of the best units in the whole Imperial German Army was the Württemberg Mountain Battalion (Königlich Württembergisches Gebirgsbataillon) which carried a bunch of Bavarian battalions in the elite Alpenkorps on the Italian front.
Major Theodor Sproesser was the commander of the Württemberg Mountain Battalion ⚫️🔴
The elite Württemberg Mountain Corps ⚫️🔴
Throughout most (not all) of WW1 the commander of the Württemberg Korps was Baron Theodor von Watter. ⚫️🔴
Württemberg Mountain Battalion 🗻⚫️🔴
King Wilhelm II of Württemberg, 1915
General of the infantry Friedrich von Gerok, came up in the Württemberg army, he led the XXIV Reserve Corps in many of the major engagements of WW1, serving on the western and eastern fronts.
Soldier of the elite Württemberg Mountain Battalion
Freiherr Theodor von Watter, commander of the Württemberg Army/XIII. Armeekorps and General of Infantry Paul von Schäfer, deputy commander of XIII. Armeekorps.
Königlich Württembergisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 246
Brass band of the 10. Württembergisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 180
A young officer of the Württemberg Mountain Battalion in WW1 who you may have heard of ...Erwin Rommel.
He was kind of a big deal later on...
Württemberg field cap and spiked helmet
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The kings of Württemberg; Friedrich I, Wilhelm I, Karl & Wilhelm II
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No other Confederate sailor was as famous as “Old Beeswax” Captain Raphael Semmes. A devout Catholic native of Maryland, Semmes saw service afloat & ashore in the Mexican War before following his adopted state of Alabama into the Confederacy in 1861. He was first assigned… 👉🏻
..captain of the commerce raider CSS Sumter. He broke out of the blockade at New Orleans & for six months prowled the Caribbean Sea & Atlantic Ocean sinking or taking 18 Union merchant vessels. Bottled up in Gibraltar, he paid off his crew & sold the ship.
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Next, Semmes was ordered to take command of the British built sloop-of-war CSS Alabama in August of 1862. From the summer of 62 to that of 1864 Semmes would take the Alabama from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, around Good Hope, into the Indian & Pacific oceans …👉🏻
Most are unaware of Italy’s history as a pioneer in the development of nuclear weapons. The Kingdom of Italy led the world in nuclear research during the Fascist Era, producing the first patented nuclear reactor. The ‘Via Panisperna boys’ led by Enrico Fermi and …(cont)👉🏻
..including Edoardo Amaldi, Oscar D'Agostino, Ettore Majorana, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti & Emilio Segrè. They discovered slow neutrons & Fermi would become known as the architect of the nuclear age. However, Fermi was married to a Jew & left Italy in 1938 after the …👉🏻
..enactment of the race law, going to Americas where he worked on the Manhattan Project. In Italy, during WW2, Italian scientists were sent to work with the Germans on developing atomic weapons. Mussolini was the only non-German to witness the tests of these weapons. …👉🏻
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was one of the most prominent & powerful men in NS Germany. He was not initially very important but over time rose to become the leader of the SS, the police & all internal security forces. He was regarded as one of the two people AH trusted most. 👇🏻
Himmler grew up in a very conservative, Catholic family. Prince Heinrich of Bavaria was his godfather. In 1918 he joined the army but the war ended before he ever saw action. He studied agriculture at university & joined the right-wing Imperial War Flag Society. 👇🏻
The Bund Reichskriegsflagge was led by Ernst Röhm who had prompted Himmler to join. He became increasingly political as well as fascinated by German myths, folklore & medieval history. In 1923 he joined the NSDAP & Rohm's society was merged with the party. 👇🏻
Having looked at the second man at the top, next is the third. As he was out of sight and out of mind for most of the war, he doesn’t always get much attention. Here is a look (in brief bits) at the life of Deputy Führer Rudolf Heß: 👇🏻
Rudolf Walter Richard Heß was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1894, the son of a wealthy businessman. His youth in North Africa left him with a lasting admiration for the British Empire. Highly educated & athletic, he joined the Imperial German Army in 1914 at the outbreak of war.👇🏻
Heß saw plenty of action throughout the conflict, serving in such campaigns as the massive Verdun offensive & the conquest of Romania. He became an officer & trained to be a fighter pilot but the war ended before he saw action in the air. The war left him broke & unemployed. 👇🏻
Argentina & Brazil have a long history of not getting along.
However, they have rarely actually gone to war with each other. But, it has happened & one such occasion was the Cisplatine War of the 1820's. It saw the two countries square off over where the border was between them.>
The area in question is known as Cisplatina, meaning the area of the River Plate or Rio de la Plata. Spain 🇪🇸 & Portugal 🇵🇹 had been rather unclear on where the border was between Brazil & Argentina but Portugal solved it by marching in & occupying the territory in 1811. 👉🏻
Brazil became independent & considered the region Brazilian but the local populace was divided. Many felt more akin to the
Argentines than Brazilians, others favored neither side. Argentina, though they denied it at first, naturally backed the separatists who wanted to join them.