Word: junkerism
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Organizer Ulbricht, it seemed, had saddled the cow. The more Moscow milked it, the more he tightened the cinch belts. There was a Two Year Plan, then a Five Year Plan. Steel production went up 500,000 tons above the prewar average for Eastern Junker Germany (to about 1,700,000 tons a year). Electric power output climbed 50% in two years. New hard-coal fields were opened, chemicals output went UP 30% and East Germany seemed on the way to becoming the most important industrial area in Europe after the Ruhr...
...Werner von Grundherr, Bonn's Ambassador to Greece, had also served Ribbentrop as chief of the Scandinavian desk, and directed the roundup of Denmark's Jews. Ironically, Grundherr, a Junker, never made the grade as a Nazi Party member; the Nazis rejected his application. He also has already resigned...
Today, erect as a Junker, Lyonel Feininger is still absorbed by the stresses of the ghostly world he creates, where shadow and substance play upon each other in a sort of counterpoint. Each day, after helping his wife tidy up their Manhattan apartment, he disappears into his studio. Sometimes he comes out to strum a bit on the piano, then returns to paint again and grumble about the light...
When Hitler came to power, Thadden realized the change and the challenge. Throughout the '30s he denounced Naziism in the church synods, but he was too good a Junker not to enter Hitler's army when he was called up, on the strength of his World War I service, in 1940. He was released from duty in 1944, after his sister Elizabeth was beheaded for complicity in the Hitler bomb plot...
This charitable organization, apparently finished with widows and orphans, has turned its thoughts to matters nearer the heart of any good Junker. It has informed President Adenauer of the Western German State that what he really needs is one infantry division by June and an armored division within the next year...