Word: frederician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party organ. Wrote he: "Whoever is National Socialist follows Frederician soldierdom...
Rightly we speak ever and again in our day of the Frederician spirit. It was this spirit which filled every officer, corporal and man, which made the Army follow the King for seven long years and which enabled it to make ever new exertions. It permitted a smaller number to triumph over a larger...
Further to publicize the Frederician revival, Germany was flooded with three-headed posters bracketing Frederick the Great, Bismarck and A. Hitler, who likes to be styled, as Frederick was, "First Soldier...
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