Word: pomerania
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...raids and sorties yet more daring, he beat back the enemies that ringed him, traded them death for death until 500,000 men had died on both sides and he had only 60,000 men left. Then Elisabeth of Russia died, and her son, Peter III, made peace, returning Pomerania to Prussia. That made the Swedes withdraw. France, bled white by England's attack on her colonies, retreated beyond the Rhine, and exhausted Austria left Frederick the master of Silesia...
...year, with its frail but refreshing promise of peace, brings us almost daily from Warsaw and Cracow, from Pomerania, Posen and Silesia, a tale of destitution, destruction and infamy of every description. . . . These are not confined to the sections of the country under Russian occupation, heart-rending as news from that quarter has been. Even more violent and persistent is the assault upon elementary justice and decency in that part of prostrate Poland that has fallen to German administration...
...aristocratic landowner from Pomerania in the backward German east, Bismarck cared little for the doctrines of economic freedom from feudal interference that were popular in free trade England. He made German capitalism an "assisted" capitalism, far more consciously purposeful than the economic systems of the west. Price-fixing and market-sharing cartels were encouraged; protection was granted to both agriculture and industry. The Prussian railroads were bought for the Prussian State, and the Social Democratic trade unions were won over to the paternalistic system partly because of the general pre-War prosperity and partly because Bismarck had introduced sickness, accident...
...Leader Adolf Hitler, after becoming Chancellor in 1933, founded four national Ordensburgs or Schools for Leaders. It will take five more years to complete these elaborate establishments, featured by "castles" built like medieval keeps, where the Leaders will be schooled. Most nearly completed is Castle Crossen-see in Pomerania, where the Leaders sleep in low, thatched buildings intended to suggest National Socialist links with the peasantry and the soil. Training at Crossensee of the first class of Leaders has just been completed and they are now going to work as teachers of 1,080 Leaders, youths between...
Although not one of the best known modern Germans, Kleinschmidt will be familiar to those who have seen his exhibition of German art in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in Pomerania in 1883, Paul Kleinschmidt has studied in Munich and Berlin. His great interest in Van Gogh took him to Southern France where he painted many scenes that his predecessor had done. The paintings of the "Sunflower" and the "Arles Bridge," in the exhibition show this admiration for Van Gogh...