Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corot had a good voice, would sometimes sing at parties. He never read newspapers. Although he lived through two French revolutions (1830, 1848) and the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) he seemed aware of only the latter...
Difficulties beset the makers of Marie Galante. Germany objected to the villain being a Teuton, so he is left without nationality, though strongly accented and with a Prussian haircut. The Japanese Ambassador notified all Japanese actors in Hollywood not to play the part of Tenoki, who is suspected of being the villain through most of the piece. When Leslie Fenton was cast for this part, Japan's Los Angeles Consul demanded changes, sent to Fox studios a censor who was won over, stayed to coach Fenton in Japanese mannerisms. The U. S. Navy demanded changes which would clear...
...there were not a George Dimitroff in the life of Hermann Wilhelm Göring, it might be necessary to invent one. When Comrade Dimitroff was on trial in the famed Reichstag arson case, Prussian Premier Göring, through whose official residence the fire bugs apparently entered, screamed in open court: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal !" This scene Elmer Rice has put into a play (TIME, Sept...
...Berlin's Reichstag Building in February 1933. Principal figures in that fantastic trial were Defendant Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutchman who seemed to be in a drugged stupor; Defendant George Dimitroff, a fiery, grim-lipped Bulgarian who mocked the proceedings, badgered the prosecution; gaudy, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who, taunted by Dimitroff, flew into a trembling, sweating fury, shrieked: "I am not afraid of you, you rascal! You have reason to fear that I'll catch you when you're out of prison! You dirty rascal! You dirty rascal" (TIME...
...World is hostile to Germany only because it is jealous of the German people for possessing Adolf Hitler. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia (after wrecking his sports car last week and going to a hospital, as did the fraulein with him): In the higher sense of true Prussianism there is no more genuine Prussian than our Reichsfuhrer [Realmleader], Adolf Hitler [who is Austrian by birth]. . . . The Prussian idea of the state and its eternal ethics has been spread by him throughout all Germany. . . . Hindenburg was the incarnation of the highest ideals. In Hitler we see their complete fulfillment...