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...author's life and personality. Investigation has shown him that in 1919 Remarque wore a uniform of a Lieutenant of the 91st Infantry Regiment, whereas the President of the Reichs-archiv has officially denied that his name appears on record. And ten years later he was calling himself Frieherr von Buchwald, known as Remark, and had a coronet on his visiting card. He then compares Remarque's account of the World War to Uncle Toby on the siege of Namur...
...this smart and dashing royal couple also lived in a state of virtue suitable to the household of a Grand Master of St. John. Actually their secrets were fashionably half concealed. They had no children, and, not dull, they encouraged a certain very zestful officer of the guards Baron Frieherr von Plettenburg-Mehrum, Plettenburg. When, in 1922, the Baron's wife sued him for divorce, she named Princess Charlotte-who was reported to have said blithely on the witness stand: "My husband knew everything. I swear it with the greatest possible pleasure...
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