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German Ambassador Mackensen, who had conveyed it across Rome in person, suggested they also wake Mussolini.
Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009
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Or the real disease, as Mackensen believes, may have been not the maculated fever at all, but the state of vulnerability to its infection.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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She arrived on January 9, 1919, as a substitute for the unfinished battle cruiser Mackensen, which the Allies had demanded but which was never sufficiently completed to go to sea.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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In each type of ship, there was a deficiency of one in the numbers promised by the armistice agreement: one battleship, König, and a light cruiser, Dresden, had been left behind with engine problems; the new battle cruiser Mackensen, still under construction, was unready for sea; one destroyer, V-70, had struck a mine crossing the North Sea and sunk.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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A Bulgarian-German force under Gen. August von Mackensen began operations in Dobrudja.
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Beginning of the great Austro-German campaign in Serbia (Gen. von Mackensen).
1914, Nov. 9 2001
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The Germans (Gen., later Field Marshal, August von Mackensen) drove the enemy into the difficult lake country and succeeded in capturing 125,000 men.
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An 11th army, under Mackensen, was then formed to cooperate with the Austrian forces from the region southeast of Cracow, in the direction of Przemysl.
1915 2001
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Mackensen advanced as far as Warsaw (Oct. 12), but was obliged to fall back when the Russians counterattacked farther east.
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Meanwhile the Germans (Mackensen), advancing on the Austrian left, pushed on toward the Vistula.
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