Word: prussianize
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...Stop! There must be some limit to your literary critics' worship of ersatz "intellectualism." Your real intellectual recognized the need to oppose the Prussian jack boot in 1914, just as he recognizes today the debt owed by us all to the American fighting man for checking the Red menace in Asia...
...20th century, no man spoke up more strongly for the freedom of the church than Otto Dibelius. A stern, proud, blunt Prussian, Dibelius was one of the first German churchmen to protest Nazism, whose distorted views on Christianity he later termed "a frightful mixture of race, blood, soil and New Testament." Suspended as superintendent-general of the Kurmark church district in 1933, he continued his resistance by writing clandestine leaflets-for which he was arrested several times...
Back in 1943, when bomb-torn Berlin started evacuating pregnant women to his East Prussian hospital, Dr. Emil Martens recklessly remarked to a colleague and fellow Nazi that Germany must be losing the war. The colleague...
P.S.T. & T.W.U. (S.S.). It was indeed a turning point in German history. Ever since 1713, when Frederick William I forged the Prussian army into "a state within a state," the German military has looked harshly on labor. Army bayonets cut down the demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted...
...tenor reigned supreme. Bing started with a bang by firing 39 singers and several musicians, including his cousin, Conductor Paul Breisach, as well as aging Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, whose variations on the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. Amid the howls of "Adolf Bing!" and "Prussian dictator" Bing remained serene. "I will run this house," he said, "on the principle of quality and quality alone." In 1958, when Maria Callas refused to sing the roles in the sequence that Bing had assigned her, he summarily dismissed her, touching off an international cause celebre. (Bing later hung...