Word: prussianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dutch East Indies (pop. 70,000,000) were defended by only 20,000 white troops and 50,000 poorly trained natives, so the Japanese simply dashed in, barely noticing their casualties. Said Prussian Militarist Carl von Clausewitz in 1812: "On no account should we overlook the moral effect of the rapid running assault. It hardens the advancing soldier against danger, while the stationary soldier loses his presence of mind...
Many doctors and scientists dismiss the phenomenon as mere illusion and folklore-perhaps because they cannot explain it. But Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians call the changing ratio "an established fact." It did not occur in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted only a few months. Nor did it occur in the U.S. in World War I, when only 4% of the population was under arms and only for a short period. But, say the Metropolitan's statisticians, it was the experience of all the principal European countries in World...
...Russians announced that in the Caucasus they had killed Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, commander of the First German Tank Army. Berlin, however, denied he had fallen. Prussian von Kleist led the first armored forces into Belgrade in April 1941, spearheaded drives into Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, commanded tanks which first captured Rostov last November, only to lose it a few weeks later. This year his Panzers again had rolled into Rostov and then far beyond to the south...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they...
...those of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, convicted last month of espionage) have been largely nonpolitical. For real political dope, many Philadelphia German-Americans listened to Dr. Goebbels by short wave. The man who pioneered WTEL's political counter-broadcasts is Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, exiled Prussian Minister of Justice, now at the University of Pennsylvania...