Word: zedlitz
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Count Robert Zedlitz und Trütschler, 60, a retired officer of the famed Prussian Guards and quondam Marshal of Kaiser Wilhelm's Court, wrote a book, Twelve Years at the German Court...
...House of Zedlitz was aroused. Baron Eberhard von Zedlitz and Neukirch, second in command of the family, took it upon himself to denounce the Count as "ein Verräter an dem Kaiser (a traitor to the Kaiser), and his book to be an unworthy attack by an officer of the old imperial defense forces of the former War Lord." The Baron then struck him off the family roll and organizations connected with the old German Army followed suit by expelling him from their societies...