When Jacob Otto Pins was born on 17 January 1917, in Höxter, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Dr. vet. Leo Leopold Pins, was 32 and his mother, Ida Lipper, was 33. He died on 4 December 2005, in Jerusalem, Israel, at the age of 88.
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Armistice ending World War I.
Germany a republic is proclaimed. Following the flight of Emperor Wilhelm II from Germany, a republic was proclaimed (later known as the Weimar Republic).
On June 7, 1945, the Nuremberg trials begin, and last into the following year. The tribunal tried 24 Nazi officials and put 12 to death by hanging. In total, there were 216 court hearings.
Possibly an altered form of South German Pinz, from a pet form of the personal name Berchtold (see Berthold ).
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