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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)

Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, Lanzelet Codex Palatinus Germanicus 371, 1420 CE

Katharina von Bora (1499-1552), wife of Martin Luther, oil on panel painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526. Wartburg Stiftung, Eisenach.

A 1900 photographic postcard showing Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), founder of the Zeppelin airship company in Germany. (German Federal Archives)

A colourised photograph of the German general Hans von Seeckt (1866-1936). Seeckt was head of the German Army through the 1920s.

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

Karl Mack von Leiberich (1752-1828), Austrian general most famous for being defeated by Napoleon during the Ulm Campaign of September-October 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition. Illustration by an unknown artist, from the book Historisches...

German field marshal Fedor von Bock (1880-1945) in 1939. Bock commanded important victories in the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Fall of France, and Operation Barbarossa during the Second World War (1939-45). (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...