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Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...Which small nation is likely to suffer first from further German advances depends upon whether the Party or Army will dominate German councils," Vagts pointed out. "The Army holds Poland as the main objective partly because of strategic reasons and partly because the old Junker landlord officers once resided in the territories that Germany lost to Poland...
...teachers of 1,080 Leaders, youths between 20 and 28 who have passed four rigorous physical examinations, are pure Aryans, will devote 60% of their time to instruction in sports, must all become competent aviators before graduating from the four-year course. Afterward they will bear the title Junker, roughly equivalent to "Knight," will go from their Ordensburg to become municipal, state or party officials, with a few given executive positions in German business. Each Leader is encouraged to marry at once and his wife and children if any are supported by the State while he continues training, up each...
...when many a great U. S. tennis player has flashed and expired, blond, green-eyed, handsome Gottfried von Cramm stands a husky 6 ft., plays with the sureness and ease of a methodically trained master. One of the seven sons of an Oxford-educated, tennis-loving Junker, he used to roll the courts for his father and brothers on the family estate, Oelber, near the little village of Nettlingen in Hannover. He started to play at the age of 9. Four years later, asked what his plans for the future were, he soberly replied: "World's Tennis Champion...
...muttons. Dictator Mussolini, Son-in- Law Ciano and Baron von Neurath discussed Spain. They agreed that Italian and German troops were failing to pull the Spanish chestnut out of the Radical fire, that Germany and Italy must get out before they themselves are burned. Baron von Neurath, representing the Junker (landed gentry) caste in Germany which has opposed Hitler's determination to go through with the Spanish adventure, was all for an early withdrawal. Mussolini disagreed, suggested that Italy and Germany should make no change until they see the outcome of White Generalissimo Franco's next big thrust...