GERMANY: Sentimentality Aside
A stirring moment for many an old German Army officer comes on January 27, when, standing at rigid attention, he drinks a birthday toast to his old Warlord and ex-Kaiser. Last week Adolf Hitler brushed this sentimentality aside, forbade his officers to toast the old Kaiser, 80 this week, ordered them to leave all restaurants and other public places where such gestures were made. Gracious exception was made for officers who belong to the Hohenzollern family. They may drink to the health of their abdicated kinsman at Doom.
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