Word: prussianize
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...know that although Prussian autocracy was bad enough in the first war, Naziism is far worse in this. Nazi forces . . . openly seek the destruction of all elective systems of government ... including our own; they seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who have seized power by force...
...treat his trip more as a holiday. On his first day out of Tokyo, at Yamada, he walked down the street to a barbershop and had his hair trimmed around the neck and ears. Later he met reporters and told them that he had given up wearing his hair Prussian-style, an affectation he assumed when Japan resigned from the League of Nations...
...City Hall. There, in a reception room decorated with jonquils and tulips, on a long oak table were spread calf-bound records, property deeds, Great-Grandfather Willkie's will. Their significance, according to Nazi spokesmen: they prove that Willkie is "a liar." Aschersleben's city archivist, Prussian-headed little Rector Goapka, launched into the story of his Willkie research. He made a big point of the four spellings of the name he found in church and city records: Willke, Willcke, Willeke, Willecke. "But," said he, "the name was never Willicke, as Herr Presidentschaftskandidat said." He grew impassioned, spluttered...
...raids over Britain and Germany, in Manhattan some pictures were put on view that had seen wars before. These pictures, of flowers, apples and of blooming, apple-cheeked women, were by France's late great Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir. Some of them had been painted during the Franco-Prussian War while German troops laid siege to Paris, some while mobs roamed the Paris streets and fired public buildings during the Commune of 1871. The last of them had been painted while World War I's Big Bertha was dropping shells on the Tuileries...
...German soldiers, officers and privates were generally "human and tolerant." Sergeants, as in the Prussian tradition, were Neanderthal types. The fliers seemed literally insane: not necessarily drugged, but political fanatics, and terrific alcoholics. The tank drivers were much the same...