Word: litzmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodor Jakobs, in his The Lion of Brzezing, thumbnails Adolf Hitler's venerable friend, General Karl Litzmann: "With legs astride, as though ready for battle, the old General stood before the window like a rock carved out of ancient Prussia...
Died. General Karl Litzmann, 86, commander of the Imperial German Army which broke through the Russian Front in 1917, ardent Nazi; of old age; in New Globsow, Pomerania. Because the Reichstag is traditionally opened by its oldest member, Nazis elected Oldster Litzmann a deputy in 1932 to sidetrack Communist Clara Zetkin, then...
...Hindenburg," concluded General Litzmann, "it is a question of escaping a curse which history may lay upon him- the curse, Meine Herren, of having driven the German people to despair and delivered Germany to Bolshevism...
...Disability, Demise or Resignation?" That Germany has not been driven to the last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
...Oldster Litzmann began his new career by opening the Prussian State Diet for the Fascist Party last...