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Georg von Kaunitz


Count Georg von Kanitz was a military attaché to the Embassy of the German Empire in Tehran during World War I.

His duties included rallying pro-German units for the war in the Middle East.

Count von Kanitz was supposedly heading a force at the town of Kangavar in 1916 against Russian troops under general Nikolai Baratov where he was killed.

War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I by Donald McKale.


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