Word: prussia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irony was heightened when bustling Dr. Goebbels seized charge of preparations for Old Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...train roared away to the East Prussia in which Hindenburg was born and in which last week he died. It was being ravaged and invaded by the Tsarist armies of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf. The Russians outnumbered the German defenders under General von Prittwitz nearly two to one. They had scared him so badly that he had telephoned to the German Supreme Command a panicky proposal for withdrawal which cost him his post...
...guests, Old Paul blinked, smiled, nodded and said little. King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni stayed two full hours. As a send-off they got a fine goose-stepping Reichswehr march past and more shouts of "Hoch Siam!" Then they motored to the most imposing medieval stronghold in East Prussia, famed Marienburg Castle, onetime seat of the "Teutonic Knights,' a motley crew who left off crusading for the pious work of converting pagan Prussians. Coming from the Near East, they brought with them Oriental ideas of architecture. Last week Their Majesties spent a whole afternoon minutely examining a vast...
...Chancellor Hitler breathing the fresh, free air of the Bavarian Alps, a bad case of jitters sent Vice Leader Rudolf Hess of the Nazi Party, who is often called "Hitler's Other Self," dashing up to Königsberg, the picturesque capital of Old Paul's East Prussia. Shouting like one possessed over a nation-wide radio hookup, Orator Hess roared that the Storm Troops are not military, but that Leader Hitler has a right to condemn even guiltless Storm Troopers to death because "in a military mutiny every tenth man is punished, irrespective of whether the bullets...
Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June...