Word: tauroggen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drive to East Prussia. Tauroggen, where the treasonable Convention of Tauroggen was signed in 1812, lies just outside the modern border of East Prussia. The Germans admitted evacuating Tauroggen last week, as General Ivan Chernyakhovsky's army, which had long threatened the province from the east, now crowded close in the north. Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and Königsberg...
Near the East Prussian border with Lithuania stood the windmill of Tauroggen. Inside sat a disgusted Prussian general. He was about to commit treason. Across the table sat a Russian general, in command of Russia's forces in the Baltic. The Prussian had orders to take Riga, but he promised the Russians...
...name was Hans David Ludwig Yorck and the date was Dec. 30, 1812. Prussia was an ally of Napoleon at the time. The treasonable document he signed became known as the Convention of Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national...
Behind these strange historical coincidences lay profound historic causes. Once more the whole Junker caste had reached the windmill at Tauroggen. Once more the Junker, whose whole justification for being was their embodiment of the Prussian state, faced an age-old conflict-Prussia v. Russia, patrician v. plebeian, military honor v. treason...
...intuitive civilian direction of the war; 3) the risk of the destruction of the Wehrmacht if Germany was defeated, observers found it easy to credit whispered stories that Germany's No. 1 soldier was no longer loyal to Hitler. Once again, a strong wind was blowing from Tauroggen...
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