Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little sister fell hard for the antiSemitic, Valhalla-first rantings that her brother Friedrich dismissed as Wagnerian idiosyncrasies. She took up with a Wagnerian camp follower named Bernhard Forster, who organized Germany's first anti-Jewish mass meetings and rounded up 267,000 signatures for his appeal to Bismarck to register all German Jews and bar them from key jobs. When Nietzsche found out that Forster's outfit was quoting some of his own diatribes against the values held sacred since Greek and Jewish times, he was furious at what he considered misappropriation of his views: "This damned...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S. defense policy that deserves the most serious debate is the rising argument for some sort of U.S. general staff system in the Pentagon, an argument that has defenders of the present system warning of the dangers of a Bismarck-like Prussian general staff, the reform-minded warning of the dangers of present-day disorganization. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Toward a U.S. General Staff...
...ruins in desperate search for a single potato, and for that matter among leaders in most of the world's capitals, there were few who had much to say in those days about free enterprise. It was an idea that the Germans themselves had spurned from the moment Bismarck seized on the 19th century Economist Friedrich List's protectionist ideas to the hour that Hjalmar Schacht's totalitarian Autarkic collapsed with Hitler. U.S. experts laughed after listening to Erhard's spouting, or felt sorry for the pathetic figure so obviously lost amid the realities around...
Before the time of Otto von Bismarck, Germany was not much more than a geographical expression-a sprawling, warring collection of states, duchies and feudal enclaves where the Hessians. Thuringians and Bavarians fought among themselves but mostly against the Prussians. Under Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set up the German Reich that lasted until the defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start...
Career: Joined the Socialist youth movement as a 15-year-old printer's apprentice, rose in Germany's highly stratified Socialist bureaucracy to be an editor and organizer, reached the national executive committee the year Hitler took over. Hitler, like Bismarck before him, suppressed the party. After twelve years' exile in Czechoslovakia, France and wartime Britain, Ollenhauer was one of three surviving leaders who met to rebuild the party in 1946. He swung behind the fiery nationalist Kurt Schumacher against Otto Grotewohl's plan to merge with the Communists (Grotewohl wound up as Premier of Communist...