Leadership ( Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt had been recalled by Adolf Hitler, to reassure the crumbling western front ), initiative and a good staff system were beginning to create a defence out of chaos.

Von Rundstedt and Model deemed a big Allied offensive to be imminent, having received many intelligence reports that described a ' constant stream ' of reinforcements to the right wing of the British Second Army.

Von Rundstedt later called this " one of the great turning points of the war.

One theory is that Von Rundstedt and Hitler agreed to conserve the armour for Fall Rot, an operation to the south.

For the first time since he launched his assault, Von Rundstedt was stopped!

The division landed in Normandy, 16 December 1944, assigned to contain the enemy in the Lorient Pocket, but the Von Rundstedt offensive resulted in a forced march to the Meuse and the defense of a 30-mile sector from Givet to Sedan, 23 December.

The 87th was moving into Germany when, on 16 December 1944, German Field Marshal Von Rundstedt launched his offensive in the Ardennes forest ( The Battle of the Bulge ).

Von Rundstedt ′ s divisions which had remained on the west bank of the Rhine were cut to pieces and 280, 000 men were taken prisoners.

Most teams, though, were unable to participate, and the Von Rundstedt Offensive spelled the end of the initiative.

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Von Rundstedt was relieved of his command by Hitler on 2 July, 1944, after suggesting that Germany should surrender, and was replaced as OB West by von Kluge.

* Von Rundstedt, the soldier and the man, 1952

He also appeared in several Italian language films, credited as " Luppo Prezzo ", and played Field Marshal Von Rundstedt in Richard Attenborough's all-star war epic A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ).

He has also worked as close friends and advisers to the likes of Erik the Red, William I of England ( whom he advised to invade England under the name Sir Von Savage ), Napoleon Bonaparte as Marshal Savage, Ra's al Ghul, Otto von Bismarck ( whom he helped to invade France as Baron Von Savage ), and Adolf Hitler.

Standartenführer Von Bulow finds Olaric's tomb and, despite Prof. Zemph's warnings about breaking the inner seal, she accidentally brings him back to life by taking his dagger.

Strangely, Von Kuechler ignored a radio intercept telling him the British were abandoning the eastern end of the line to fall back to Dunkirk itself.

The film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent movie star who draws him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, her butler and ex-husband.

In Starspawn by Kenneth Von Gunden, Earth is infiltrated by small parasitic aliens capable of attaching themselves to a human and controlling him or her-similar to the scenario of Heinlein's aforementioned The Puppet Masters-except that the invasion takes place in Medieval England, against the background of knights besieging a castle.

Indeed Von Braun said of him:

However, according to police reports, Stroud had knocked Von Dahmer unconscious, he then shot him at point-blank range.

Joining him were his brother Roy O. Disney, Lulu Von Hagen and Thornton Ladd ( Ladd & Kelsey, Architects ), of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music.

Von Reininghaus was a wealthy and influential industrialist, and Rosegger had a personal friendship with him for the rest of his life.

Von Stroheim was utterly indifferent over money and could have gone on and spent millions, with nobody to stop him .".

Von Greim asked Reitsch to fly him into embattled Berlin to meet Hitler.

In addition to " The Long-Lost-Friend ," Hohman also wrote and published, or at least had attributed to him, a number of further books in German, including Unsers Herran Jesu Christi Kinderbuch, oder, Merkwurdige Historische Beschreibung Von Joachim Und Anna ( Our Lord Jesus Christ's Childhood-Book, or, The Strange Historical Description of Joachim and Anna ), and Albertus Magnus, oder, Der Lange Verborgene und Getreuer und Christlicher Unterricht fur Jedermann ( Albertus Magnus, or, Long Lost and True and Christian Instructions for Everyone ).

Although Von Braun's interrogators pressured him, he was not tortured ; however in 1944 another PoW, U-boat Captain Werner Henke was shot and killed while climbing the fence at Fort Hunt.

After the New York State Supreme Court authorized the state to force feed him, Dr. Martin Von Holden, the director of the Central New York Psychiatric Center, said Chapman still refused to eat with other inmates but agreed to take liquid nutrients.

Von Oppersdorff listened to Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, and liked it so much that he offered a great amount of money for Beethoven to compose a new symphony for him.

However studio executive Irving Thalberg fired Von Stroheim during filming and replaced him with director Rupert Julian.

Von Below became upset, told Hartmann it was Hitler's and ordered him to put it back.

* The German World War I battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann was named after him.

Von Luckner still refused to accept that the war was over for him.

Von Manstein informed him that an immediate counterattack on Kharkov would be fruitless, but that he could successfully attack the overextended Soviet flank with his five Panzer Corps, and recapture Kharkov later.

Von Däniken reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid ( incorrectly labeling it as being from " Copan ") and comparing Pacal's pose to that of 1960s Project Mercury astronauts, interpreting drawings underneath him as rockets, and offering it as evidence of a supposed extraterrestrial influence on the ancient Maya.

Von Goosewing often calls for Heinrich, and often blames his failures on him.

Von Goosewing mentions that Heinrich threatened to resign but is still with him.

This affection is reciprocated and the two have a romance during the comic's run, much to Von Goosewing's chagrin ; Goosewing pursues Duckula with greater fervour as he seeks to ' protect ' his niece from him.

Another book by him, written at Brugg, Von der Erfahrung in der Arzneiwissenschaft (" Of experience in pharmacology ", 1764 ), also attracted much attention.

Von Seydlitz and Prince Henry of Prussia, the cavalry and the infantry leaders engaged, each received wounds.

Von Richthofen was angered by the fear of the infantry and called the day " a real disappointment ".

Khiva was gradually reduced in size by Russian expansion in Turkestan and, in 1873, after Russia conquered the neighbouring cities of Tashkent and Samarkand, General Von Kaufman launched an attack on Khiva consisting of 13, 000 infantry and cavalry.