Word: lychow
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...name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed-dour example to weary-hearted German soldiers. Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage. His peasant simplicity won belief in the hearts of guards, officers, and even old Commander von Lychow...
...with annexation, colonization, Germanization, of the whole new border territory. In wholesale efficiency as to forestry, mineral resources, new currency, savings-banks, travelling incinerators, German bookshops, and paper factories for newspapers, insignificant Grischa fell under the category of discipline necessary to state maintenance. In vain did old von Lychow, beloved of his men, argue that it is justice preserves the state: "I know that justice and faith in God have been the pillars of Prussia, and I will not look on while her rulers try to bring them down...
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