Word: prussian
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...says Carson, is the growing preoccupation with the present, fostered largely by the social sciences. "The teaching of history before the first world war has been indicted for . . . not keeping the subject matter up to date. The history student of 1910 ended his study of history with the Franco-Prussian War, or thereabouts ... As a consequence, we are told, the generation in 1914 was badly prepared for the social cataclysm...
Knoke's mold was that of most young Germans raised in Hitler's Reich. Born in Hamelin town, the son of a Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...
...First World War Britain had smartened up considerably. Now it was Germany's turn to produce the military dunces. How low the Prussian intelligence could sink was clearly demonstrated in the Gary Cooper epic Sergeant York. First, the gangling backwoods bumpkin captured a troop of Germans, mostly by making turkey-calling noises, then picking off the heads that popped up to investigate the ruckus...
...married a beautiful but dumb member of one of Germany's best cartel families-pure bourgeois and pure Prussian. Contact with the average middle-class German mind was such a shock that I was practically forced to make a study of history and of international relations. At that time the average German people suffered from a fanatical inferiority complex owing to the fact that, historically, they came on the scene too late to grab choice colonies...
...tired-looking lawyer who came close to defeating Reuter himself in the last mayoralty election (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Schreiber grew up on a farm in the Harz Mountains. He fought in the Kaiser's cavalry in World War I; the Nazis sacked him from his post as Prussian State Minister of Trade and Commerce; in 1945, Soviet Marshal Zhukov bounced him from his job for opposing the Communists' "land reform" program...