Word: prussianize
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...ever been intimate with Jews should be counted in with Jews" and as such feel the full weight of the decrees. This draft Adolf Hitler approved but the Army, represented by War Minister General Werner von Blomberg, fought desperately against it, since a good many swank Prussian officers have taken Jewish wives to enable themselves to go on living in the style to which a Prussian officer is accustomed. At length, after a second excited Cabinet scene, Catholic Hitler threw up his hands and, with the German Old Guard concurring, decreed the law in its original form, debasing Jews...
...next few years Marx studied jurisprudence, Greek philosophy, Hegel, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Democritus and Epicurus, came into conflict with the Prussian censor, became widely known in radical intellectual circles. At the age of 24 he was editor of a radical paper in Cologne, helped to boost its circulation in six months from 885 to 3,200, before it was suppressed. While editor of the paper he met Friedrich Engels, tall, good-natured son of a wealthy manufacturer, famed for drinking bouts and for philosophic and economic articles in obscure journals. Engels had also begun his literary career...
During the Franco-Prussian War Manet became a staff officer, served gallantly, carried dispatches under fire at Champigny. Monet went to England...
...more than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
...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...