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...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
...catch phrase for French defeatists on the eve of World War II was "Die For Danzig?," the title of an article by right-wing Socialist Marcel Dêat. Last week Defeatist Dêat was ready to die for Danzig, Berlin and all way stations. With other leaders of France's Fascist-minded Rassemblement National Populaire he enlisted to fight with the Nazis in Russia...
...conductor the Perrys got a young German, Hans Schwieger, onetime maestro in Danzig and Berlin. For players, the Perrys wanted chiefly Southerners, but when they failed to find enough, they settled for Northerners and refugees...
...deserter from the Nazis is Hermann Rauschning, former East Prussian officer and Junker, former President of the Danzig Senate, former member of Hitler's inner circle. He described the proletarian nature of the Nazi revolution in The Revolution of Nihilism, later revealed Hitler's sinister secret conversations with his inner circle in The Voice of Destruction...
...knockout before U. S. production should begin to give Britain the edge over Germany. Also it was punishment (the Germans said) for British audacity in bombing Munich last fortnight while Adolf Hitler was there, and for disturbing Russian Premier Molotov's visit with bombs upon Danzig and Berlin, and for again plastering the Krupp works at Essen. The only mystery was why, if the Germans could thus destroy a small city at will, they had not long ago destroyed Britain's industrial towns one by one. Perhaps they lacked the resources to keep it up regularly...