Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight years ago U. S. readers were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a little book called Way of Sacrifice, by a Prussian officer who had fought before Verdun, came with the shock of revelation. Few months later a much wider U. S. audience was discovering The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Though it never became such an enormous seller as All Quiet on the Western Front, it soon ranked as a modern classic, has sold nearly 250,000 copies in English translation alone. Those...
Starting their campaign against militarism in education with a commendable bang, the meeting went on record as supporting the Nye-Kvale Bill for abolishing compulsory military training in public institutions. At the present time it is hard to believe that the R.O.T.C. could grow into a warlike Prussian order, fomenting national "honor" and international hate. But there is no logical reason to discriminate against students at government colleges, making them bear arms against their will. Indeed the popularity of the training is enough to justify removing the compulsory feature. But at any event the solid work of the Peace Committee...
...engrossed have successive classes become in the absorbing lectures of William Langer that they have gradually come to submit themselves like drugged sheep to a hapless system of oral examinations which more nearly approach Prussian police methods than conferences in a civilized and modern university. Students are rushed through these meetings, summarily quizzed upon a few abstruse features of a highly complicated period, and as quickly dismissed to make room for the next man. Like machine parts in a factory, they are hastily examined for imperfections, and then cast back into the wash...
...slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State Opera. A group of New Yorkers under Ira A. Hirschmann forthwith canceled their Philharmonic subscriptions, threatened to stir up a general boycott...
...confidence of only 10% of the members of the Reichstag. "The price which Hindenburg had to pay for the Nazi's support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...