Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tycoons & Junkers. When worried President von Hindenburg let "Safeguard Minister" Dr. Hugenberg go last week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany...
Promptly Adolf Hitler's loudest roarer, Prussian Premier Hermann Goring, followed up with a blast. He had just defied the Treaty of Versailles by ordering two "police planes" to defend Berlin. Cried...
...speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...unrealized will-to-arms present in our younger generation," boomed Captain Goring, "forms the basis of German culture. Culture we must encourage! From now on the measures taken by the Prussian Ministry of Education for the cultural development of the people will be based upon this will-to-arms...
Cultural measures of this sort already taken consist in weeding out of Prussian schools so-called "American competitive sports," substituting such "German military sports" as learning to throw wooden hand grenades ballasted with lead to correct military weight...