Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pale Chancellor Heinrich Bruning forgotten that according to Germany's Constitution Old Paul von Hindenburg's term of office is up in May. With another Reparations conference hanging over his head, he stood face to face with the prospect of a new Presidential election and general elections to the Prussian Diet, elections in which his opponents the Hitlerites were almost sure to make enormous gains...
Correspondents thought it likely that canny Chancellor Bruning would accede. Hitlerites in his Cabinet could not well work for his overthrow. Meanwhile Hitler tacticians, realizing that they had lost once again, prepared to make the best of things by entering the Prussian State elections, still due in May, as champions of a party which gave up an easy victory for the good of the State...
Muzzle. The Bruning Dictatorship did not stop its attack on the Hitler advance there. Adolf Hitler was scheduled to make a radio address to the U. S. The German Government forbade it. Prussian Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Karl Severing was called into consultation; a lengthy meeting was held to decide whether the Government dared expel Fascist Hitler from Germany without bringing on the long-feared revolution...
...Franco-Prussian War," Professor Langer, Harvard...
...nation fell upon hard days, for the bugle of Napoleon was loud in the land. What Russia and Austria could not do the Emperor of France seemed all too easily able to bring about. The Prussian flag lay furled as the world stared on at Prenzlau, Ratkau and Auerstadt. A handful of men stormed over Europe shouting "The Old Guard neither dies nor surrenders," and Prussia shivered in the Baltic fogs. In Prussia at this time dwelt an old man, who later gave his name to a fine boot, who was to see them do both...