Word: prussianize
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Huge crowds stood in Berlin streets, in Hamburg beer gardens, in Magdeburg restaurants listening to a speech over the radio. It was artful-alternating historical review with hysterical threat. The speaker's voice was deep, gruff, staccato as that of a Prussian drillmaster...
Suddenly above the voice rose a banshee screech-air-raid alarm. The crowds shuddered, broke, ran for air-raid cellars. In Hamburg the radio loudspeakers faltered and fell silent. But in Berlin and elsewhere, the harsh Prussian voice spoke on like a trump of doom, echoing through deserted streets and beer halls...
...Among German Army officers the problem of accepting the Bolsheviks as allies has been less difficult than it has either for veteran Nazis or for the shopkeeping and white-collar middle class of Germany. . . . Older officers of the Prussian vintage have favored a Russian alliance for 20 years and they are reported to be worried only over the price-in Poland, in the Baltic Sea and possibly in the Balkans-which Hitler...
...August 2, 1914, the cruiser Emden lay in the tranquil, mountain-embraced harbor of Tsingtao, China, with its crew assembled on deck. Captain Karl von Müller, a man of Prussian gallantry and Goth insolence, read to the sailors a wireless message announcing war's declaration...
...name were new. Blitzkrieg, in its simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began. In the last World War they tried and failed-but only after the retreat from Paris did the War settle down to one of position and exhaustion. This...