Word: junker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Sometimes Rauschning's voice sounds like that of a prophet, sometimes like that of a clever Junker. He has little use for forces which most people are used to calling progressive. In a brilliant chapter, The Unseen Revolution, he lights up a paradox: "The true forces of reaction are not to be found . . . in the cliques of a privileged class. . . ." Far more reactionary are the doctrinaires who, in the name of economic security for the masses, have promoted "the idea of rational planning, which has come from the world of technology, where it belongs, to intrude on political...
...time is not far away when India . . . will be found in the ranks of our allies," recently boasted Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, head man of the Nazi Colonial League. What the blustering Junker overlooked was the fact that, although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer to him than freedom itself; the Indian National Congress wants...
...German Army was disbanded at Versailles. Relieved of the sniffs and sneers of elderly Junker leadership, the younger officers of the then small Reichswehr were wholly free to develop new ideas. Into the ranks, when Hitler decreed conscription in 1935, poured determined, fanatical youths, proud, as most Germans are, of the profession of arms...
...parks of 8 1 year-old Wilhelm II, who from 1888 to 1918 by the grace of God was German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...