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The hauptmann was a middle-aged officer, a Prussian who through some indiscretion that had given offence to his Imperial master had been practically banished by being sent to German East Africa.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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Wever, promoted to oberleutnant on the eve of the Great War, was a hauptmann, or captain, by 1915, serving both as a brigade adjutant and a battalion commander.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Wever, promoted to oberleutnant on the eve of the Great War, was a hauptmann, or captain, by 1915, serving both as a brigade adjutant and a battalion commander.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Set (not arbitrarily) in 1984, the film chronicles the government surveillance of a couple of cultural darlings (handsome Sebastian Koch and the deliciously wide-hipped Martina Gedeck) by a solid GDR soldier, Stasi hauptmann Gerd Weisler (Ulrich Mühe).
The way they were Arbogast 2007
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In the morning you will show the hauptmann this farmhouse. '
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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'The Reichsprotector will dine at eight thirty,' ordered the hauptmann.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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'The Brigadeführer sentenced him last night,' added the hauptmann.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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The hauptmann recounted the incident of the wire across the Aldington road, adding that he had heard the 55th Regiment had suffered too.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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'Butler?' the hauptmann did not understand at first.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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'We prepared for this eventuality before the invasion,' he remarked to the hauptmann, handing over a poster.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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