Word: junker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Friedrich Christiansen, 64, is chief for Holland. A World War I flying ace and no Junker, chunky, weather-beaten Christiansen is also a mariner, went back to sea after the last war and captained the liner Rio Bravo on the Hamburg-Mexico run. Later, returning to the air, he piloted Germany's Do-X flying boat, ultimately stepped in behind Göring to build up the Luftwaffe...
General Alexander von Falkenhausen, 64, chief for Belgium, is rated a keen, well-tested strategist. Tall, spare, pince-nezed, Junker Falkenhausen has served around the world, was once a $10,000-a-year military adviser to Chiang Kaishek. He likes to read U.S. and British whodunits, play with his prize dachshunds. In action Allied commanders rate him a keen, dangerous opponent...
...drew near, crushing responsibility settled back upon the handful of top commanders. For the Germans, it fell most heavily on two field marshals, able hoodlum Erwin Rommel and able Junker Gerd von Rundstedt. They were hard at work on their checkup of garrisons, driving their staffs to perfect the plans for the 50-odd divisions they will have in the West on Dday...
Above loyalty to the chief of state there is loyalty to the state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and despair, the German burgher of today has no greater military idol than Manstein...
...straight-laced Manstein himself, such a betrayal may be acceptable. For like other Junkers he had been brought up on Junker Karl von Clausewitz's ageless lecture to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm...