Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany, provide a vivid picture of towns and people gutted by war. The attitudes with which Germany met defeat are typified by the characters Happy encounters. There is a corrupt SS sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression of stark, demoralizing realism. Happy takes it all in with the disillusioned expression of a man who recognizes evil, but can see no answer...
...Werner's dangerous mission behind German lines to locate the position of a Panzer army develops into an odyssey through the German state of mind. Tormented inwardly by reminders of his old loyalties, he finds despair, spiritual decay, flickering compassion, Nazi brutishness and remnants of a severe Prussian sense of honor...
...latest list of collectors' items from the rare book department of Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions...
GERMANY Out of the Desert Lili Marlene's oldest friends had a get-together last week.* Into the hilly Westphalian town of Iserlohn, through the city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their...
...summer of 1871, during the Prussian occupation. Five Prussian Uhlans were billeted in our house. One night the five went down to my father's wine cellar and got roaring drunk. I was sent to bed-I was only ten-but from my room I heard everything. My father and my uncle went out to the woodshed and got two axes. Then they went to the cellar and killed every one of the drunken soldiers. They buried them that night outside the village and my father made me swear to keep the secret which would have cost the lives...