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Papen

American  
[pah-puhn] / ˈpɑ pən /

noun

  1. Franz von 1879–1969, German diplomat, statesman, and soldier.


Papen British  
/ ˈpaːpən /

noun

  1. Franz von (frants fɔn). 1879–1969, German statesman; chancellor (1932) and vice chancellor (1933–34) under Hitler, whom he was instrumental in bringing to power

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Others said they saw someone believed to have started the fire fleeing the scene, according to Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Jeffrey Papen.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2021

Papen said they did meet with Candelaria but said she preferred Wirth answer questions “because I’m not there anymore.”

From Washington Times • May 4, 2021

From this group, only the former Vice-Chancellor and diplomat Franz von Papen, who had also served as German military atttaché in Washington D.C., was tried and acquitted in Nuremberg.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2021

There had been rumours in Berlin of a meeting at Berchtesgaden yesterday between Herr Hitler, Herr von Ribbentrop, and Her von Papen, who had recently visited Moscow, but that was all.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2019

The statement of Dumba's report that the Ambassador had shown the suggestion to Captain von Papen, who had thought it very valuable, was very compromising for us.

From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von