Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years before Churchill was born, Bismarck made the German Empire Europe's No. 1 power by defeating France. This same year, and as a result of the same war, Paris gave Europe the first example of a new revolutionary political form-the commune or soviet...
...Said Bismarck: "He who controls the Bohemian bastion controls Europe...
...wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world . . . I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther. . . . Lutheranism is essentially German. ... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. . . . The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due. . . . We must hope that the next swing of the pendulum will...
Skillfully the Russians and their German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...
...became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...