Word: prussian
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...some years a Prussian civil servant, later vice consul in Zurich, Author Gisevius claims to have been a member of an eager, unstable and heterogeneous group which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler...
They could not, unfortunately, deflate the "gaseous metaphysics" of Nazi doctrine, even in its final Götterdammerung convulsions. Martin Bormann, faithful to the end, pumped the Führer full of false hopes. Göring, in his Prussian retreat, dressed "now like an oriental Rajah, now in a light-blue uniform with a bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism...
...PRUSSIAN, THE LIFE & LEGEND OF KARL MARX (422 pp.)- eopold Schwarzschlld-Scribner...
...traditionally choleric and vehemently nationalistic nation the twin tempests of war and social upheaval have left a hot and churning sea of Polish emotions. The present government in carrying out long needed land reforms, in outlawing the classically Prussian type military elique, and in actively combatting anti-Semitism, an evil deeply rooted in the Polish scene, has created a wealthy, influential, and fanatical opposition. The purpose of this opposition is not the reconstruction of Poland but the reestablishment of the landed and military nobility that for so long dominated that country. Their armed underground has, it is said...
...modern manner, the chosen figure serves equally as a peg on which Author Brogan hangs dissertations on social conditions and any lively bits of stuff that catch his eye. The essay on Marshal Bazaine, for example, is not merely a portrait of the man who lost the Franco-Prussian War, it is also a discussion of the grand tradition of French marshals, from Turenne to Rochambeau...