Word: prussian
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...cross section of a Bavarian town, and not so much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose...
...Nuisances. Whatever the differences of the Big Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
...vast scheme of national defense and of its astronomical cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their Allies with...
Prussia's last nine kings were crowned there. Philosopher Immanuel Kant had been born there, hardly ventured outside, and been buried there. Generations of German Junkers had called the city their home. Since 1255 Königsberg, more than any other German town, had stood for Prussian traditions. Last week Prussia's new masters made a clean break with tradition, renamed the city Kaliningrad...
...second year of the American Civil War, Christopher Kuester and his family fled to the U.S. from the hardship and ever-menacing hunger of peasant life in Germany. The year the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), they reached Cass County, where a heavily, German population had begun to put down American roots...