The leading classes, the officer corps, the diplomatic corps and higher civil service, the Herr Professoren and Herr Doktoren, the medical profession, the legal profession, the art historians, big business and finance, and the chains of petty officialdom and the people had sunk their individual selves and their doubts to follow the strong leader they found they wished to revere as the greatest warlord of all time. It was the spiritual triumph of the Prussian warrior caste. It had created the German nation scarcely seventy years before. Now obeisance to authority, orderliness, industry and hard
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