Word: prussianization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planned a move in the midst of a campaign, he conferred with overworked generals who were simultaneously commanding troops in the field. First to realize that the complexity of modern warfare rendered a good commander at the front a poor adviser at headquarters was Napoleon's old adversary, Prussian General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst. To him goes historic credit for establishing the first general staff and setting up a War Academy to train its members...
...been frustrated in his efforts to dragoon these pastors into the State's German Christian Church, that last week Realmleader Hitler's only recourse was to try a finesse. His Minister of Church Affairs, Hans Kerrl. dispatched an emissary to a meeting of the opposition pastors' Prussian Confessional Synod at Berlin. Surprisingly, he offered to junk Dr. Müller and appoint as Reich Bishop the opposition's candidate, gentle, widely beloved Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh. Herr Kerrl also offered to let the opposition nominate a majority of the members of the new German Christian Church...
...Germans the Holy Land is not in Palestine but our Holy Land is the place, wherever it may be, upon which Germans have descended. Our holy places are certain castles on the Rhine, the good earth of Lower Saxony and the Prussian fortress of Marienburg...
...Breaking off his South German rustication at last, the Realmleader sped north to Kiel this week, watched naval war games from the flagship Schleswig- Holstein with Defense Minister General Werner von Blomberg and No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Air Minister and Prussian Premier...
...Catholics of Germany, from the Cardinals down to the last priest, wished they knew where Der Führer was last week. Was it with or without his approval that the No. 2 Nazi, Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, had ordered his secret police to eavesdrop at every church and report for later punishment clerics who "falsely employ the authority of their spiritual position for political purposes"-i. e. criticize the Nazi State. "The Church dare not," declared General Göring in his passionate and somewhat incoherent decree, "call upon God against the State-an atrocity that...