Word: hohenzollern
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...first time that the thousand-year-old House of Savoy (rulers of Italy since 1861) had broken a contract. In 1915 Vittorio Emanuele had shifted Italy from its alliance with the Hohenzollern and the Habsburg into the Allied camp. Now perhaps he was trying to repeat the past, trying to assure the future for himself and his son, tall, fast-living Crown Prince Umberto...
Once before, in 1918, America reaped the fruit of victory: the menace of German arrogant military power, controlling Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, was removed and democratic ideals triumphed in the fall of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanov empires, in the liberation of nationalities, in social and political gains everywhere...
Plan for Defense. In the lexicon of Rundstedt's Hohenzollern-made class, there is no such word as "won't." When Adolf Hitler, whom few Junker officers regard with kindness, ordered straight-backed Rundstedt to a secondary area, and a defensive job to boot, no old-line officer could have been surprised that he took the job. Or that he did it well...
Skagerrak to Scapa Flow. Erich Raeder was a young officer, and not a very promising one, when he was assigned in 1910 to his first important post: navigating officer of the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. It was a job that might have broken the spirit of an already proved officer. To the unproved Raeder, who had spent 16 years in such jobs as writing thoughtful screeds for the German naval journal, Marine Rundschau, it was a job that led on to destiny...
Died. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 82, retired emperor; at Doom...