Word: prussianize
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...Peace with Prussians? The U.S. and Great Britain were still talking general, unofficial terms about the kind of Germany they want after "unconditional surrender," but they were clearly going on record for the things they do not want in Germany: > Said Winston Churchill last week (see p. 26): "The Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism are the two main elements in German life which must be absolutely . . . rooted out if Europe and the world are to be spared a third and still more frightful conflict...
...Said Franklin Roosevelt in his message to Congress Sept. 17: "When Hitler and the Nazis go out, the Prussian military clique must go with them...
Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...
...Countess (the title is authentic) Marianna von Moltke, 46, greying, talkative poesy-minded wife of a professor of Wayne (Detroit's city-owned) University. (The professor is said to be a grandson of Bismarck's famed Prussian strategist. Field Marshal Count von Moltke.) With two sons in Germany, the Countess, Detroiters complain, has tried to interest college students in her pro-Nazi doctrines...