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...Gulag, Solzhenitsyn describes his arrest for the first time. In February 1945, as the Red Army rumbled inexorably through Germany to Berlin, the battle-worn captain was suddenly seized near Konigsberg, on the East Prussian front. He was stripped of his rank, his medals and his gun, and escorted by armed guards back to Moscow's Lubyanka Prison. It was then that the writer was born. Passing through a Moscow subway station en route to Lubyanka on that bitter winter day, Solzhenitsyn paused and surveyed the scene...
Chileans frequently observe that they have a Prussian army, a British navy and an American air force−and indeed, foreign influences like goose-stepping are visible in each. Until World War I, when the army was strongly influenced by its German tutors, most of the officers came from the aristocratic landowning class. Today the vast majority of both officers and recruits come from the middle and lower classes...
...merged into one formidable figure in the public mind, "This is unfair to Ehrlichman," says one who knew both well. "Ehrlichman was a good person to work with; you always got a fair hearing from him. He has a nice sense of humor and was never curt-not that Prussian image. He would sit with his feet on the desk and talk ideas. But Haldeman-well, the public image is the correct one. I've never known him to crack a joke. I've never known him to seem relaxed...
Much of this drift can be laid to the relative disarray in the White House, which was formerly run with the highhanded authoritarianism of a Prussian drill field by the President's two top aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
World War I and its bitter aftermath brought forth a new art in Germany. George Grosz's work, which has its roots in the Berlin Dada movement, attacks postwar German society with a viciousness that spares neither the Prussian military nor the lowest member of the Lumpenproletariat. Otto Dix's caricatures are equally bitter -- Dix spares not even himself. The differences between Nolde's and Dix's self-portraits illuminate the difference between the moods of pre and post-war Germany. Nolde's is brooding and mystical, with a hint of secrets yet to be revealed. Dix turns the full...