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...deserter from the Nazis is Hermann Rauschning, former East Prussian officer and Junker, former President of the Danzig Senate, former member of Hitler's inner circle. He described the proletarian nature of the Nazi revolution in The Revolution of Nihilism, later revealed Hitler's sinister secret conversations with his inner circle in The Voice of Destruction...
...concentration camps with political opponents, drove hundreds into exile, purged others with liberal doses of castor oil. Public performance of classical dramas extolling freedom was prohibited and Pericles' funeral oration was banned in schools. He spent the Kingdom's money to build an Army on the Prussian model and to maintain a police force large enough to inspire love of government in the nation. In his Cabinet he made himself Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Air Minister, Minister of Education. In 1938 he proclaimed himself "Premier for life." But unlike the Axis...
...National Socialism. The triumph of Hitler no doubt grew out of the despair which settled on Central Europe in the long years of war, defeat, inflation, revolutionary propaganda. That was what gave Hitler his chance. But modern National Socialism is the reassertion of the .strongest tradition in German and Prussian history-the belief in the all-powerful military state, creating order and discipline at home by ruthless Gestapo methods and expanding its wealth and power by ruthless conquest abroad. We have almost lost the capacity to understand that war and conquest can be regarded and preached as heroic and legitimate...
Escape is also a powerful true bill against Naziism's ruthlessness. The villain of the story, rather than any individual, is the system. Its personification is in the machinelike personality of a Prussian general (Conrad Veidt), the helplessness of a sympathetic Nazi doctor (Philip Dorn...
Back from the Franco-Prussian War came ambitious Max Graf. Amid much barter and little romance, he and stolid, pious Tessa were married. She bore eleven children, worked stubbornly until her legs, like many peasant women's, became horribly varicose. Her husband's bakery flourished as the region became a resort for Wagner, Liszt, the mad King Ludwig...