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    Ludwig August Theodor Beck (German: [ˈluːt.vɪç bɛk] ; 29 June 1880 – 20 July 1944) was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the...
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    Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (Danish: Frederik Carl Ludvig; 20 August 1757 – 24 April 1816) was the ninth and penultimate...
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    Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (German: Friedrich Ludwig Herzog von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck; 6 April 1653 – 7 March 1728) was a Duke...
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    There were also notable cases of suicide attempts, such as that of Ludwig Beck and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Suicides occurred in Germany, except...
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    the deputy head of the Military Intelligence Office; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, a former Chief of Staff of the German Army High Command (OKH); and Field...
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    was an Austrian zoologist Ludwig Beck, German World War II general involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler Ludwig von Benedek, Austrian general...
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    immediate execution by firing squad. As for retired Colonel-General Ludwig Beck, Fromm allowed his request to commit suicide, but since the suicide attempt...
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  • Oster's place in the German Resistance, which includes Tresckow, General Ludwig Beck, Dr. Carl Goerdeler, and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben. Stauffenberg...
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    Blomberg, of his intentions. The Chief of the General Staff, General Ludwig Beck, warned Hitler that the German Army was ill-prepared for conflict with...
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    years after "deal[ing] with the situation" in Czechoslovakia. General Ludwig Beck, chief of the German general staff, noted that Hitler's change of heart...
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    Staff of the Army High Command on 1 September. He succeeded General Ludwig Beck who had resigned on 18 August amid the Sudetenland crisis. Halder was...
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    the army. Among them, Guderian claimed, was Chief of the General Staff Ludwig Beck (1935–1938), who he alleged was skeptical that armored forces could be...
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    Weeds Storyteller Get Smart Siegfried Yes Man Terrence Bundley Valkyrie Ludwig Beck 2010 Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie Captain Severus Voice 2011...
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    Department (Operations), where he worked in close contact with Generals Ludwig Beck, Werner von Fritsch, Adolf Heusinger and Erich von Manstein. Later in...
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    counterintelligence at the Foreign Affairs Office in Berlin through the help of Ludwig Beck. There, von Guttenberg worked under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and belonged...
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  • Königsberg. The couple had one child, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (20 August 1757 – 24 April 1816). Anton would have...
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    General Ludwig Beck, regarded this as not only immoral but reckless, since he believed that Germany would lose such a war. Oster and Beck sent emissaries...
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    last years of the Weimar Republic put him under the command of General Ludwig Beck.[citation needed] In September 1939, Jodl first met Adolf Hitler. During...
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    General Staff Took office Left office Time in office Ref. 1 Beck, LudwigGeneraloberst Ludwig Beck (1880–1944) 1 July 1935 31 August 1938 3 years, 61 days...
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    German-occupied Poland. General Ludwig Beck from Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the 20 July 1944 assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler. Beck was designated by...
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    distributing Nazi literature at their base, their commanding officer, General Ludwig Beck (of the 5th Artillery Regiment based in Ulm), was furious at their arrest...
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    became a member of General Ludwig Beck's private intelligence network. Goerdeler's reports were received not only by Beck but also by General Werner von...
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  • Haeften, General Friedrich Olbricht, Ludwig Beck, and Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim are arrested and tried. Beck commits suicide, and the rest are...
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    Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886), also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King (der Märchenkönig), was King...
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    Himmler. It was reported that Fritsch had been encouraged by General Ludwig Beck to carry out a military putsch against Hitler's regime but that he declined...
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    no such war. In 1940, Planck, Popitz, Ulrich von Hassell and General Ludwig Beck drafted a "Provisional Constitution" on the assumption that the forthcoming...
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  • officer) (1880–1974), British Army major general Ludwig Beck (1880–1944), German Army general Stanley C. Beck (born 1929), U.S. Air Force major general John...
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  • envisioned that General Ludwig Beck would become provisional head of state as Reichsverweser after Hitler was killed. When the plot failed, Beck and many other...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm was the only son of Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and Countess Friederike of Schlieben, and was a member...
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    The initial proposal was from von Manstein and submitted to General Ludwig Beck in 1935, suggesting that Sturmartillerie units should be used in a direct-fire...
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