Word: prussia
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...great-grandfather fought all through the Napoleonic wars. Last week Painter Jean Hélion (who has had 15 one-man shows in the U.S. alone) told as much as he could, without endangering those who helped him, of how he escaped from a Nazi prison camp in Eastern Prussia, crossed some 1,000 miles of Germany, Belgium and Occupied France to Vichy, later sailed...
...story it tells is a simple one. The crew of an English bomber is shot down in East Prussia, manages to escape capture, and in their journey back to the Dutch coast stage what amounts to a five-man invasion, opening up a second front all their own. If the picture has one weakness it is lack of plot; it is merely a series of highly exciting incidents strung together by the basic theme--the struggle to get out of Germany. There is a girl, but no love interest, and aside from a few conflicting personalities within the group...
...sseldorf's turn came on a moonless night last week. Three nights later it was Bremen's. Simultaneously Soviet bombers ranged over eastern Europe, attacking Königsberg in East Prussia, Bucharest and Rumania's Ploesti oil fields...
...last vintage, Rundstedt is among the best. He was born, as one should be, in Prussia, to a family which for generations had glorified the sword and service to the Fatherland, and nothing else. His father was an aristocrat and a general. So would...
Unlike his business rivals, who pirated British and American books right & left, Tauchnitz paid his authors, introduced a royalty system, plugged the first international-copyright treaty between Britain, Prussia and Saxony...