Word: prussianize
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Promptly Adolf Hitler's loudest roarer, Prussian Premier Hermann Goring, followed up with a blast. He had just defied the Treaty of Versailles by ordering two "police planes" to defend Berlin. Cried...
...speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...unrealized will-to-arms present in our younger generation," boomed Captain Goring, "forms the basis of German culture. Culture we must encourage! From now on the measures taken by the Prussian Ministry of Education for the cultural development of the people will be based upon this will-to-arms...
Cultural measures of this sort already taken consist in weeding out of Prussian schools so-called "American competitive sports," substituting such "German military sports" as learning to throw wooden hand grenades ballasted with lead to correct military weight...
...picture is something of a monotone because it uses the German institution for the education of Prussian army officers' daughters as the only background for the whole film. With the faithfulness of attention to detail which characterizes German cinema production. "Maedchen in Uniform" is alive with genuine emotion and a well-defined and exacting plot structure. There are many touches of the theatre from the entrance of the orphan Manuela into the school to the closing scene in which Fraulein von Beruburg is chosen spontaneously as the natural leader by the acclaim of the children for the understanding and gentleness...