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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • In the morning you will show the hauptmann this farmhouse. '

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • 'The Reichsprotector will dine at eight thirty,' ordered the hauptmann.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • 'The Brigadeführer sentenced him last night,' added the hauptmann.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • 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

  • 'Butler?' the hauptmann did not understand at first.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • '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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