Word: prussianize
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...position that no Prussian likes, or wants to keep. He is on the defensive. As long as the Russian war holds the best of the German Army on the Eastern Front, as long as that hooligan and instinctive soldier Rommel needs help in Egypt, Rundstedt, the carefully cultivated flower of the old German military system, has to hold off the enemy in the north. Germany's most respected soldier, her soundest staff officer, her No. 1 field commander, he has to sit behind his bunkers and parry the enemy's thrusts. He may never again lead an offensive...
During the Prussian parliamentary crisis in the summer of 1932, Rundstedt took charge of Berlin on Hindenburg's order to see that order was kept. His reward was command of Army Group I, with headquarters in Berlin. He was still in command in 1935 when the hollow-cheeked, ascetic Leeb took over Group II (based on Kassel) and the chill-eyed, death-glorifying Bock became commander of Group III (Dresden...
...counting 1942 a year of victory. The way would be clear for Germany to strike another body blow at battered Russia, perhaps in the far north against supply lines from across the seas, perhaps at Moscow, where proud Fedor von Bock has a haunting defeat to sponge from his Prussian escutcheon...
...years ago used to be in the Prussian Ministry of Justice gave a wry outline of the famous Haushofer geopolitics and observed that Haushofer's most cherished dream-of a Russian-German bloc dominating the Eurasian land mass-had failed; that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support...
Commanding a detachment of mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...