Word: prussia
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...continuation of World War I when, at his special orders, his mechanical cavalry wheeled their Blitzkrieg harmlessly around the green parks of 8 1 year-old Wilhelm II, who from 1888 to 1918 by the grace of God was German Emperor and King of Prussia. Fuhrer Adolf, ac cording to some reports, would like to see Wilhelm II return to the Reich, live out his days as a Hohenzollern Junker; but the ex-Kaiser, while accepting the protection of Hitler's own guards, kept on chop ping wood at Doom...
...saying that President von Hindenburg had consented to see him and asking Göring to go with him. When Göring arrived in Berlin he received word of Karin's death. Two years later, when Hitler was Chancellor and Göring was Prime Minister of Prussia, he held a State burial for her at Karinhall. Hitler walked beside the widower...
When great men go into eclipse they usually become writers or schemers, or both. During the 21 years of his exile at Doom, The Netherlands, Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, has written millions of words in articles, memoirs (unfinished) and private correspondence. And he has never given up hope for a Hohenzollern restoration in Germany. As late as January 1930 he was quoted as saying: "The people will call back their Kaiser." Although Wilhelm II has had to be careful to obey the no-politics order...
...official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take on, with backing only from England, the combined forces of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony who wished to punish him for his rape of Silesia...
...sorties yet more daring, he beat back the enemies that ringed him, traded them death for death until 500,000 men had died on both sides and he had only 60,000 men left. Then Elisabeth of Russia died, and her son, Peter III, made peace, returning Pomerania to Prussia. That made the Swedes withdraw. France, bled white by England's attack on her colonies, retreated beyond the Rhine, and exhausted Austria left Frederick the master of Silesia...