Word: bavaria
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...Duke of Kent, Prince Vishnu of Nepal, many another royal admirer, was reported to have been quietly married in Paris to Adolf Hitler's longtime military mentor and president of the Reich Colonial League, 72-year-old Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, Reichstatthalter for Bavaria...
...never was and never will be what your reporter calls a salon Bolshevik. I was with the soldiers of the first World War, with the workers of Berlin, with the peasants of Bavaria, with the miners of the Saar, and had no time to join those circles of rich people who find themselves interesting by talking revolution in their parlors...
...senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria, the visiting officers and nobles who profaned rustic Masses by singing Deutschland über alles before the Te Deum...
Perhaps the most effective accomplishment of the Jesuits in all their four centuries was their part in the Roman Catholic Church's 16th-Century Counter-Reformation against Protestantism. In 1550, Protestantism seemed on the verge of a sweeping triumph in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Bavaria and the Rhineland. By 1600, thanks largely to the Jesuits, these regions again were Catholic...
...profession, continuing at the same time their practical political work within the numerous Party organizations. At the end of this period, one fourth of each class is picked for further training at the Ordensburgen located at Crössensee in Pomerania, Burg Vogelsang in the Rhineland, Sonthofen in Bavaria. Specializing in ideology and the theory of leadership, they spend one year at each castle. Then the final selection is made and those found to possess supreme qualities of leadership go to the Führerschule in Bavaria, where at the feet of Prophet Rosenberg they imbibe the spiritual understanding and enlightenment...