Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole people recall at this sad hour her majestic beauty, her venerable silver hair, her untiring charity, her austere composure in sorrow, her fervent love of the fatherland and her exquisite sensitiveness as a queen and woman...
Until recently the body of Baron von Richthofen has lain buried on French soil at Amiens, where it was interred by his enemies with full military honors on April 21, 1918. Now, however, it is to be brought back to the Fatherland, and on November 20 "all Germany will unite in a vast memorial service...
Then, in company with Prince Oscar of Prussia, von Hindenburg reviewed not only the Reichswehr company but a parade of "Fatherland Societies," which are both militaristic and monarchistic. When someone inquired whether as President of a republic, he was not lending himself too much to a monarchistic demonstration, he pointed to the fact that his automobile did not bear the Presidential standard. That omission indicated that the Herr President, in the uniform of a Feldmarschall, was "participating unofficially...
...Hindenburg present? Was not he President of the German Republic? Was not he also a staunch Monarchist? The answer was in a gutteral German affirmative. Moreover, since Monarchists assume that President von Hindenburg has taken the oath of allegiance to the Republic only in order to serve the Fatherland and not because he has renounced Monarchism, they evidently deemed it highly proper for them to attend with their chief. But enthusiastic they could...
...ceremony. But even at this an observer was moved to remark: "One wonders, gazing upward, at the black, white and red standard of the German Army sharing honors on the historic Konigsplatz with the black, red and gold flag of the republic whether it was not the soldiers' fatherland and their wartime leader who were being cheered instead of the Republican Constitution...