Word: prussianize
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Many doctors and scientists dismiss the phenomenon as mere illusion and folklore-perhaps because they cannot explain it. But Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians call the changing ratio "an established fact." It did not occur in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted only a few months. Nor did it occur in the U.S. in World War I, when only 4% of the population was under arms and only for a short period. But, say the Metropolitan's statisticians, it was the experience of all the principal European countries in World...
...Russians announced that in the Caucasus they had killed Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, commander of the First German Tank Army. Berlin, however, denied he had fallen. Prussian von Kleist led the first armored forces into Belgrade in April 1941, spearheaded drives into Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, commanded tanks which first captured Rostov last November, only to lose it a few weeks later. This year his Panzers again had rolled into Rostov and then far beyond to the south...
...Bock's headquarters, many miles from the fighting, a pin moved. The Field Marshal's green eyes glowed. The forward dance of the pins on the map meant to him, too, that men were dying. It was a meaning that, for him and his Prussian kind, was as real as it was for all the Kochetkovs on the hills. And too much death, Bock knew, can stop the movement of the pins-it stopped them last fall when he threw his armies in costly assaults upon Moscow...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they...
...those of the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn, convicted last month of espionage) have been largely nonpolitical. For real political dope, many Philadelphia German-Americans listened to Dr. Goebbels by short wave. The man who pioneered WTEL's political counter-broadcasts is Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, exiled Prussian Minister of Justice, now at the University of Pennsylvania...