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...were the primitive Saxon miners of copper, lead, silver and nickelite (nickel arsenide) from mines which have been yielding their wealth for centuries. For 725 years, since the beginning of the 13th Century, a mine has been operated by the same company - the Mansfeld Mining and Smelting Co. - in Prussian-Saxony, northwest of Leipzig...
...Prussian generals of the Blood-and-Iron school, the possession of disfiguring facial scars by youthful officers was regarded as an essential for promotion...
...Eine Selbstverstandlichkeit." To begin, the von Beneckendorffs have been for some 600 years among the most respected of the lesser Prussian nobility. By chance, the President's great-grandfather received from his great-uncle (a von Hindenburg) certain landed estates, willed him only on condition that he add the comparatively "nouveau" title of "von Hindenburg" to his own illustrious one. His son, a Prussian officer as a matter of course, married the daughter of an army surgeon. To them was born Paul, a deep-chested healthy infant, who inhaled the atmosphere of Prussian militarism with his first breath...
...went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...Prussian Minister of Education initiated a reform of the system of education which is now in effect in Prussia and most of the other states of Germany. Why was a reform necessary? Because the schools and Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...