Word: ostelbien
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...Ostelbien. Extirpation of the Junkers-the Mansteins, Kleists, Külers of the Wehrmacht-would end a long, bloody, turbulent German chapter...
...Junkers are more than a caste. To the Junkers their Ostelbien (east of the Elbe) is the heart of Germany; and Germany was the world's heart. They are a social system, a way of life, a thought pattern, a cancer on Europe's uneasy breast. Century after century, their dreams have become blueprints, their blueprints war. Even under Hitler the German army is in a sense their private weapon. (Between Versailles and Hitler, 60% of the Wehrmacht's officers came from Ostelbien's Junkers...
Hitler and the Junkers bear no love for each other. But Ostelbien's generals and the Austrian ex-corporal have made a fine team...
Junker's Life. In this dark hour of defeat by the despised Slav, Fritz Erich von Manstein must have longed to shut his eyes to the dreary, hostile scene and think of friendly Ostelbien: of the small estate of impoverished Prussian Artillery General von Lewinski, whose tenth child he was; of the Castle of Colonel Baron Georg von Manstein, who adopted Erich von Lewinski when his father died...
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