Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half courses which he will offer next year on Prussian literature one will deal with the classic and romantic, the other with the phase from...
...dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...
Jean Murat, who plays the role of Captain Benoit, a French Secret Service agent, steals valuable German plans and is out for more when the Prussian staff puts pretty Erna Flieder (Vera Korene of the Comedie Francaise) on his trail. After getting what he wants by posing as a banker, he flees Germany with an innocent post-mistress whom he had beguiled in order to carry out his plan...
...suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...
Illustrating from the old Prussian bureaucracy, whose history he traced from the Constitution of Weimar in 1813, he declared that the system only worked when men of the highest calibre had control of the machinery. When the ideal of self-administration in the states and townships of the German Federation had been fairly well established, Bruening said, laws were more of a directive character than an attempt to fit every case. He said that adaptability and elasticity characterized this legislation...