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• according to legend, the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
• a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl, Rosemarie Nitribitt, who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957?
• the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra, a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish?
• the World War I German U-boat UB-2 was the only one of the Type UB I submarines in the Flanders Flotilla not to be shipped by rail to Antwerp?
• the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22, 1941, by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division?
• Studio Wall, an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel, is considered one of the "masterpieces of Menzel's maturity"?
• Son Goku, a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z?
• American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill?
• German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?
• Adolph Diesterweg, a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"?
• Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
• Richard Rogler became the only German professor for Kabarett in 1999?
• Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?