Word: junker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind these strange historical coincidences lay profound historic causes. Once more the whole Junker caste had reached the windmill at Tauroggen. Once more the Junker, whose whole justification for being was their embodiment of the Prussian state, faced an age-old conflict-Prussia v. Russia, patrician v. plebeian, military honor v. treason...
...large the Junker were perhaps the most able, intelligent and disciplined single group of men on the continent of Europe. Certainly they were the most ruthless, tough-minded, coldblooded. They needed to be. For never before had their caste so squarely faced the prospect of extermination...
More Purge. To sweep clean the ranks of his disaffected generals Adolf Hitler needed an iron broom. He found one in the persons of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Supreme High Command, and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, a Prussian and a Junker. As head of a newly created Military Court of Honor, the two Field Marshals last week reported their first batch of Army sweepings: four of their fellow officers executed; four dead by suicide; two "deserted to the Bolsheviki"; twelve slated for "elimination" from the Army; many more about to be tried...
Guderian was not one of the innermost circle of Prussian officers. He lacked the Junker background. But he was not an outsider. Born at Chelmo on the Vistula, in German Poland, he was an officer's son. He had an eminently correct career as cadet, junior officer, staff officer in World...
...mountain resorts trembled as the Party's hunt for manpower spread. They knew that Dr. Ley's speech about "blue-blooded swine" (TIME, July. 31) was no accident, that in the frenzied Nazi search for a new scapegoat to bear the blame for losing the war, the Junker was fast taking the place...