Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recently he revived a symphony by Prussian King Frederick the Great, famed in his time as a flautist, patron, composer...
...proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was and is the prime personification of Prussian Kultur as it conceived itself to be ? Feld marschall August von Mackensen...
...World War is not yet ended. . . . I hope a new German Army will carry on the old Prussian spirit and virtue. I pray to witness the beginning of the Fatherland's resurrection...
...patriotic-imperialistic demonstrations switched to gay reunion of fellow officers as the wines ran rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...