Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
Cocking the Pistols. The world waited, as for a long-delayed stage entrance, for the Red armies to cross the East Prussian border. The Germans defending their own soil threw into battle armored units brought from Italy and "heavy catapult appliances" (possibly rocket platforms). The iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also...
...name was Hans David Ludwig Yorck and the date was Dec. 30, 1812. Prussia was an ally of Napoleon at the time. The treasonable document he signed became known as the Convention of Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national...
Behind these strange historical coincidences lay profound historic causes. Once more the whole Junker caste had reached the windmill at Tauroggen. Once more the Junker, whose whole justification for being was their embodiment of the Prussian state, faced an age-old conflict-Prussia v. Russia, patrician v. plebeian, military honor v. treason...
Judge of His Peers. No man had a better training for sitting in judgement on Germany's ruling class than Gerd von Rundstedt. The Rundstedts had been lords in the Altmark of Brandenburg since at least 1123. Rundstedt's father was a Prussian major general, his grandfather a major, his great-grandfather a lieutenant colonel...