Word: teutonism
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...alone that super Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors. Editors of Nazi scientific papers announced that there was no room for the paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective argument against evolution was the heavy hint that advocacy of "neo-Darwinism" made a German politically suspect...
...huts a century from now, ancient Rumanian peasants will speak tragically of the things their fathers told them of the frightful year 1940. First there had been the war between the peoples of the West, each striving to pull Rumania into the struggle on its side. Then the Teutons and the Slavs had all but stripped Rumania down to its small ancient provinces, despoiling it of its gains from the older war. The King fled for his life and the Teuton people came to occupy what was left of the country. Then the earth itself writhed and trembled...
...brilliant history of World War I: "Open the sea cocks and let our ships sink. In ... half an hour at most, the whole outlook of the world would be changed. The British Empire would dissolve . . . Europe after one mighty convulsion passing into the iron grip and rule of the Teuton. . . . There would only be left far across the Atlantic, unarmed, unready, and as yet uninstructed, America to manage singlehanded law and freedom among men." He could not free himself from a sense of doom...
Frankly amorous waxed Das Schwarze Korps, newspaper of Heinrich Himmler's Elite Guard. The paper invited the U. S. to join the "new strong powers," presumably sit by while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz...
Last week, war correspondents arrived in Louvain in the wake of Germany's army. They found the Louvain Library and its 700,000 new volumes again destroyed by Teuton fury...