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...Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
...Dynamiter. As a military attache in Mexico, the young Junker became an eager student of the Mexican revolution. He kept the German War Ministry informed on just how the revolutionists blew up railway trains-"by burying dynamite beneath the line itself. . . . Infernal machines, so far as I know, have not been employed." But they were employed in the U.S., almost as soon as Papen opened his large office at No. 60 Wall Street...
Step No. 1 was easiest. "Papen had the advantage of speaking the same language as the President. They also shared the same Junker ideal of life. They discussed their estates, they went shooting together, and spoke of the Kaiser as His Imperial Majesty. It was a well-known fact that nobody could make the Field Marshal laugh as heartily and as often as Fraenzchen." To Hindenburg, he was soon "a mixture of aide-de-camp, foster son and confidential adviser...
...German army, which at the present time looks to be the class of the world, curiously enough there is none of this feeling of caste. The effect of Nazi doctrines, for some perverted reason, has been to knock the props out from under the old Prussian junker army officer caste. Now the private in the Germany army is made to realize that he is the most privileged citizen in the nation and the equal of anyone. The sergeant in the Nazis' army, unlike the civilian farmer or laborer, can rise from his ranks, and he can do it with...
...farmer was Hermann Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...