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Germany united to mourn the death of Franz Beckenbauer on Monday, with figures from across the sporting and political landscape bidding farewell to the 'Kaiser'.

Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner as both a player and a coach, died on Sunday at the age of 78, with news of his death not announced until Monday evening.

Franz Broseph seemed like any other Diplomacy player to Claes de Graaff. The handle was a joke - Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I reborn as an online bro - but that was the kind of humor that people who play Diplomacy tend to enjoy. The game is a classic, beloved by the likes of John F.

A rare painting by German expressionist Franz Marc, which was returned last year from a museum to the descendants of a Jewish collector who fled the Nazi, is expected to set a new world record for the artist when it is offered for sale in an auction next month.