Word: fatherland
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...since Kaisers, Hindenburgs, Ludendorffs, Von Tirpitzes and Bethmann-Hollwegs ceased to shake the Fatherland has Germany been so profoundly moved by an individual. The death of Hugo Stinnes in Berlin following an operation for gallstones which was complicated by pleural pneumonia, stirred the whole country to the complete exclusion of all else...
...Hans von Seecht, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr. He deplored the fact that young Germans were being given military training. He pointed out that the Versailles Treaty was thereby being flagrantly and dangerously defied. He explained that the French were angered. He prophesied that enemies of the Fatherland would one day make "these military preparations" an excuse for invasion...
...strong feeling of favor which he had worked up as result of making no attempt to hide his Nationalistic sentiment. "Ludy" was unafraid. Last week, for example, he told his judges that they themselves sat "before the judgment of History, which does not send men who fought for the Fatherland to a fortress, but to a Valhalla...
...maintain in these sad days the firm belief that the objective of the trial will show that everything which my dear comrade and helper did was dictated solely by glowing unselfish love for the Fatherland-and I assume the same motives inspire his present opponents, for I strive to be just to all sides...
...some time there has been some violent criticism in the Fatherland of German plutocrats who, in violation of every canon of good taste and human decency, have lived riotous lives abroad while the masses of German people starve at home...