Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prussian officer, himself trained in a military school, Rauschning is an East Prussian Junker who joined the Nazis in 1931 because he could see no other way out for Germany's desperation. He became President of the Danzig Senate, Hitler's go-between in his off-stage talks with Poland's late President Pilsudski. But when the Führer ordered Rauschning to persecute Danzig Jews and Catholics, he quit the Nazis, took refuge in Poland, where he wrote his expose...
Rimbaud was brought up by a tight-fisted mother who was open-handed only with her slaps. Until he was 15, she took him to school every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing verse, ran away to Paris. There the penniless poet, little more than a pretty-faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud...
...units advanced, the Smigly (nimble) cavalry of Generalissimo Smigly-Rydz swept around them to get at the German infantry. Poles claimed that successful counterattacks of this nature had carried the fighting to German soil on the west, in the neighborhood of Breslau and, in the north, over the East Prussian border below Allenstein. For this week, a major battle loomed as the Poles fell back upon prepared positions along the Narew River...
...Hans Heinrich Lammers, Hitler's personal State Secretary and Chief of the Chancellery. Least known bigwig of the Nazi party, bald Dr. Lammers is a typical oldtime Prussian official, wears a Prince Albert more often than his Storm Trooper's uniform. A Nationalist until 1932, in that year he broke with Alfred Hugenberg, threw his influence behind Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he rewarded Stooge Lammers with the job of Undersecretary of the Chancellery. Author of many fat books on legal questions, Dr. Lammers produced the legal opinion which, after Paul von Hindenburg...
Philosopher. Both ancestry and environment made Maurice Gamelin a soldier. He was born in 1872 (the year after the Franco-Prussian War) in Paris at No. 262 Boulevard St. Germain, just across from the War Ministry, in whose shadow he played war games as a child. His mother even painted a charming picture of him at the age of 20 months, beating a toy drum (see cut, p. 20). On his father's side he was descended from at least five generals, one of whom served under Louis XVI. His father, Zephirin Auguste Joseph Gamelin, became Controller General...