Word: junker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...
...days of July, 1918. The Nazi leaders, in a hysteria of fury and fear, had been compelled to fight on a new front, within the fatherland. In & out of Germany the rumors flew: two divisions had mutinied in East Prussia; naval forces were in a state of mutiny; old Junker generals were being purged; 5,500 Army officers, including 34 generals, were arrested or executed...
Rundstedt could scarcely pass a fanaticism test. A devout and amoral Junker, he gives his basic loyalty to the German military tradition rather than to the Nazi Party. After his dismissal last week, a Stockholm rumor promptly had him under house arrest. More probably he retired to his country place in Bad Nauheim with his phonograph records (all military marches by brass bands) and his collection of buttons and epaulets of all the world's armies...
Adolf's Choice. Rundstedt's unenviable place in the west was taken over by Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
German news agencies announced the Wehrmacht's final line-up of top commanders to oppose the invasion. Contrary to Nazi party rumor, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 68-year-old, frosty-eyed Junker veteran of the "old Army," stayed on as supreme commander in the west...