Word: junker
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...Dauphine Alps, rod-backed Major General Otto Richter, a Nazi who had tried to be like a Junker, led a group from his disorganized 198th German Division into an American ambush. Before he could say Achtung he was a U.S. prisoner...
Last week the Nazis said that Stauffenberg first took a bomb in Hitler's conference room the day that Rundstedt relinquished his command, but left again without exploding it. Had the Junker taken Rundstedt's removal as a signal that the time had come to strike against the Nazis? Three months ago Allied intelligence officers had heard reports of a Wehrmacht coup in the making. Rumors linked Rundstedt's name with men like Finance Wizard Hjalmar Schacht, onetime Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath, Baron von Weizsacker, Ambassador to the Vatican, former Oberbürgermeister Karl Goerdeler...
...mills of the gods were grinding exceedingly small. This time the Junker conspirators had underestimated the striking power and cunning of the little man in the trench coat...
Stauffenberg's bomb was no time bomb, but it dinned into Adolf Hitler's ears what time it was on history's relentless clock. The Junker felt that opportunism, the chief bond between them and Naziism now bound them to depose Hitler. For the time being Hitler restored the bond by a number of judicious hangings...
...Wartenburg and the others to the gallows because he had no choice? Did he hope to shield other Wehrmacht generals by acting as the grand inquisitor? When known, the answers to these questions will form an interesting page of history. But they do not alter the fact that the Junker and the Nazis are both very close to the end of their respective ropes. Nor the fact that Germany is now a land divided against itself - although still held together by the frame of the gallows...