Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince Otto von Bismarck saw what was implicit in Marx more clearly than Marx himself did. He noted the reluctance of Marxists to discuss the nature of the society for which they struggled. Said Bismarck in 1878: "If only I could find out what the future [Marxist] state . . . is like. We can only catch glimpses of it through the cracks. . . . If every man has to have his share allotted to him from above, we arrive at a kind of prison existence where everyone is at the mercy of the warders. And in our modern prisons the warder...
...waiting. In Nürnberg, Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, 64, accused of butchering civilians and P.W.s in Poland, threw himself over a prison parapet, fell 30 feet to a tile floor, died of a crushed chest and punctured lungs. Next day, in Paris' Cherche-Midi Prison, General Otto von Stülpnagel, 69, convinced that he would be shot for shooting wartime French hostages, finally succeeded (second try) in hanging himself with strips torn from his bedding and underwear...
...Kurt von Schuschnigg, 50, pre-Anschluss chancellor of Austria, won a job lecturing at St. Louis University...
...young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons killed in duels they do not want to fight and younger sons sent off to cadet schools they do not want to attend. The story, insofar as there is one, deals with the love affair of Joachim von Pasenow and Ruzena, his Czech mistress...
With the third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...