Word: junkerdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allied captors at Nürnberg, the Field Marshal seemed to be the essence of all that was evil in Junkerdom. Tall and taciturn, a monocle screwed tight in one chilly pale eye, his boots gleaming with metronomic precision as he paced the stone floor of his cell, the prisoner never complained and never begged for mercy. When the gallows trap was sprung on Oct. 16, 1946, and Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel dropped to his death, it is doubtful that he had any regrets. Keitel had long before reached the end of his rope...
...Germany's East African commander in World War I, a will-o'-the-wisp tactician whose tiny guerrilla force (300 Germans, 11,000 natives) haunted, taunted, eluded and periodically decimated a combined Anglo-Belgian-Portuguese force of 300,000 for four years, all the while scrupulously obeying Junkerdom's rules of war (he freed prisoners who promised not to fight again, refused to fire on enemy officers at close range), finally laid down his arms 14 leisurely days after the 1918 armistice, the only undefeated German general in that war; in Hamburg...