Word: prussians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to the steel mills. The Thyssen empire prospered again...
...they begin to succeed in their boring from within. They succeeded, ideologically; but not in 1830, nor even in 1848, did the Reich become a reality. Not until 1852, when a pilot with ideals of blood and iron took over. And not until 18 years later, when the Prussian army marched into Paris...
Private Life. Two years after her coronation Wilhelmina married a dashing young lieutenant of the Prussian Guards, Henry Wladimir Albert Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Prince Henry was fond of meeting up with sea captains and artists, and led a hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...
...thinking of resorting to stink bombs! We have five people living with us, and are getting our family life organized on a communist basis. Daddy hates every minute of it, but mother has risen to the occasion like an old war horse. After all, she dates from the Franco-Prussian War, so this is nothing new to her. By the way, why isn't America in this scrap? It was Roosevelt who pushed us into...
Some years before World War I, the Kaiser took Queen Wilhelmina-a plump, sweet-faced young matron-out to his Army maneuvers. Intending to impress his little neighbor with Germany's military might, he pointed out to her a strapping unit of the Prussian Guard...