Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servants say that Oscar must be nearly as old as the President's son, spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul...
...government. Anonymous Author ''General XV diary runs from May 1932 to January 1933- from the fall of Brüning to the accession of Hitler. A War Office official, he was apparently in close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop the Nazis. he is written off as a ''trimmer." Greatest villain...
President Paul von Hindenburg is strict on one point: he will serve as godfather to no German child except a ninth son. Last week in the Prussian town of Langenberg one Frau Colsman, already mother of six sons, was successfully delivered of boy triplets. Vice Chancellor von Papen stepped up as godfather of one. Chancellor Adolf Hitler as godfather of another. For the third and ninth President von Hindenburg proudly allowed himself to be registered as godfather...
Heartened by the release of Editor Welk, the editor of a little East Prussian paper ventured last week to complain directly to Minister Goebbels...
Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...