Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electricity, there is no communication with the outside world), where he and the natives briskly dispose of several dozen heavily armed Nazis, blow up the schooner and a brace of submarines. In the story of a war which seems almost nostalgically simple these days, Claude Rains is selfconsciously Prussian as the head villain and Carla Balenda does her best to look decorative as the unnecessary heroine...
...idea for Wozzeck in a "drama fragment" by the gifted but short-lived German playwright, Georg Büchner (1813-37). In the stormy aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and in a period of liberal revolutions, Büchner had written the tragedy of a clodlike Prussian soldier named Franz Wozzeck...
Last week the 52-year-old general, a Prussian army veteran, marched into the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department office in Nürnberg to make a paradoxical confession. It was he who had given the face-saving poison to the man whom he had accused...
...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
...British-made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler's headquarters, "Wolfschanze," deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered out slightly burned and bruised, though his hearing was affected. Within a few hours, an implacable hunt for the conspirators was unleashed. Before it was over, thousands of Germany's anti-Nazis were exterminated...