Monocle
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A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the visual perception in only one eye. It consists of a circular lens placed in front of the eye and held in place by the eye socket i
Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle
A 20th-century gold plated monocle with gallery
Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle wearing a monocle
Hugo Sperrle
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Hugo Wilhelm Sperrle was a German military aviator in World War I and a Generalfeldmarschall in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Monocle
…von Fritsch, Erich Ludendorff, Walter Model, Walter von Reichenau, Dietrich von Saucken, Wilhelm Keitel, Dietrich von Choltiz, Hans von Seeckt, and Hugo Sperrle. Following the Prussian example, monocles became fashionable among the officers of other peacetime European armies in the late 19th and early 20th…
Sperrle in 1940
Sperrle, with Wolfram von Richthofen, in Spain, 1936
Ruins of Guernica
Sperrle (right), with staff officers in France