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...Ostelbien. Extirpation of the Junkers-the Mansteins, Kleists, Külers of the Wehrmacht-would end a long, bloody, turbulent German chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Hitler and the Junkers bear no love for each other. But Ostelbien's generals and the Austrian ex-corporal have made a fine team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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