And right you are Waleed! Though you didn’t catch on to all the clues
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Picture 1 Baden, as von Senger was indeed born in Waldshut in Baden.
Picture 2 Cecil Rhodes, after his death a fund was instituted from his earnings in South Africa and, of course, Rhodesia. This fund paid for the Rhodes Scholarship that helped von Senger to Oxford.
Picture 3 St. Johns College in Oxford where von Senger studied.
Picture 4 Eduard Ritter von Schleich, the man that would go on to be the first commander of JG 26 ‘Schlageter’.
Picture 5 Franz Götz, the last commander of JG 26 ‘Schlageter’.
Since Götz was too young to have served in WW I the nickname of the JG they both commanded was the connection. Named after Albert Leo Schlageter who was a Freikorps Kämpfer and actively resisted the French troops in the Rhineland. Finally caught and executed for acts of sabotage in 1923 he became a NSDAP martyr. During WW I Schlageter served in the same regiment as von Senger und Etterlin, Badisches Artillerie Regiment 76.
Picture 6 General Maercker. The man that raised the very first Freikorps in 1918 and is regarded as the ‘founding father’ of the Freikorpsen. Von Senger joined his Freikorps in 1919 in Saxony.
Pic/text 7 Father-in-law von Kracht.
Picture 8 Erwin Rommel. After a career with the Kavallerie the brigade that von Senger commanded in 1940 was upgraded to motorised brigade, hence the ‘new job’, and attached to Rommels 7 PzD.
Picture 9 Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, commander of the Franco-German Armistice Commission.
Picture 10 Pietro Pintor, commander of the Franco-Italian Armistice Commission.
Von Senger was the liaison officer between these two.
Next would have been Von Sengers command of 10 PzGr-Brigade, 17 PzD, German troops in Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica through 1943 and finally various acts during his command of XIV PzK in Italy.
Von Senger und Etterlins switches between frontline and ‘diplomatic’ assignments, actions on the Western, Eastern and Mediteranian fronts and the very famous photo’s of him with the abbot of the monastery on Monte Cassino make him stand out from others and are the main reason for chosing him.
Over to you Waleed!
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