Word: junkerism
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...years the rich lands felt the strong influence of the Germans, first from the Knights of the Teutonic Order, later under imperial Prussia's black eagle, still later under Hitler's hooked cross. Dotted between vast estates of Junker aristocrats were thriving industrial and port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went...
...grain a year, and where the worker spends 90% of his wages on food, a food crisis threatens. The situation is worst in the western lands, formerly German, where the Polish farmers brought from the east have never felt at home, and the collectives, built around the old Junker estates, have never prospered despite credits and tax exemptions...
...rejected out of hand the West's plan for German unity. He accused the Western powers-including, of all people, the French-of seeking "a revival of German militarism." What the West wants, he said, is to re-establish throughout Germany "the rule of big monopolies, Junker and militarists" and to "liquidate the social gains of the [East German Communist Republic]." The West had pleaded with Moscow to let the Germans decide for themselves; Molotov would have none of that. The Soviet Union, he said without a trace of embarrassment, could not stand idly by and watch free elections...
...course, to point out that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying up billboard space and ads in rival British papers to further his campaign...
Princess Fried Egg. Princess Frederika was raised-mostly in Austria-in the stern, proud tradition of Germany's Junker nobility. It was unthinkable, she told schoolmates later in life, that she would ever be permitted to marry beneath her own exalted station...