The Telegraph has one wonderful thing - its obituaries, including obituaries of Germany's war heroes. These are always entertaining, typically starting something like:
"Daphne Twittington-Whitstall-Whyte of that ilk, who has died aged 103, was born in Istanbul, then Constantinople, to the Emir of Shad and his 23rd wife, two days before the Emir's deposition by Lawrence of Arabia. Her mother then gathered all 500 of the Emir's surviving children and fled to Lithuania, then centre of the Empire of Poland, where she farmed opium…"
(not a real example, but it gives the tone)