Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Made up of the military clique, Prussian Junkers, industrialists, and many men in the fields of education and justice, this same minority has been responsible for both World Wars, the sabotage of the post-war Republic, and the rise of Hitler, he explained. Their destruction, and the nationalization of Germany's essential industries, are prerequisites to any reconstruction, stated Pol, who has recently written a book on this subject...
...than the greater part of action movies that have been turned out lately, but it's a difference of degree and not of kind. For essentially Eisenstein's film is just a "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" story which takes place on a Prussian plain instead of on a Boston hilltop...
...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
...longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth. He had a safe conduct for himself, but among the papers which the British confiscated was his checkbook. Thorough Prussian, Papen had written out in full on the stubs the names of his secret agents, the sums he paid them, and the nature of their services...
...German army, which at the present time looks to be the class of the world, curiously enough there is none of this feeling of caste. The effect of Nazi doctrines, for some perverted reason, has been to knock the props out from under the old Prussian junker army officer caste. Now the private in the Germany army is made to realize that he is the most privileged citizen in the nation and the equal of anyone. The sergeant in the Nazis' army, unlike the civilian farmer or laborer, can rise from his ranks, and he can do it with...