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A 1938 photograph of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), Nazi German foreign minister, who negotiated the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. (German Federal Archives)

A 1924 photograph of General Erich von Ludendorff (1865-1937), Commander-in-Chief of the German Army during the First World War (1914-18). US National Archives

Portrait medal of the Protestant writer Argula von Grumbach (l. 1490-c. 1564), dated to c. 1520.

Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918), known as the ‘Red Baron’, was the First World War's most successful fighter pilot, amassing 80 victories but eventually succumbing himself in April 1918. Here he wears around his neck the prestigious Pour...

A 1939 photograph of the German general Günther von Kluge (1882-1944). (German Federal Archives)

Portrait of Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora, oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder,1525. The Morgan Library and Museum, New York.

Portrait of Franz von Sickingen (l. 1481-1523), one of the leaders of the Knights' Revolt in the Germanic regions of the Holy Roman Empire and an advocate for the Protestant Reformation. Oil on panel painting by an unknown artist, 16th century...

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), the founder of the Zeppelin airship company in Germany. The first Zeppelin flew in 1900. Photographic postcard, 1900. German Federal Archives.

Cooper engraving presenting a reformer and theologian Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt (l. 1486-1541). Created around 1522.

Woodcut print of Ulrich von Hutten (l. 1488-1523) from c. 1522 depicting the poet-knight who encouraged the Knights' Revolt of 1522-1523.