tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post2306481286712598129..comments2024-03-27T20:34:09.464+01:00Comments on zmkc: Care in the Communityzmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-53670331695264280052011-11-24T10:23:34.431+01:002011-11-24T10:23:34.431+01:00WW I - so many unintended consequences, GeorgeWW I - so many unintended consequences, Georgezmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-2504628478311259312011-11-23T01:29:17.247+01:002011-11-23T01:29:17.247+01:00The article appears to refer to the period of the ...The article appears to refer to the period of the reforms, 1800 through 1812, at which time I suppose Jews were not commissioned as officers--from Frederick the Great through the 2nd half of the 19th Century, I don't think anybody but the nobility got many commissions. I have read that the German army lacked the numbers to carry out the Schlieffen plan to the fullest because of the reluctance to commission candidates from the middle class. Certainly the casualties of 1914 on caused a rethinking of that, just as the Korean War caused the USMC to recognize the merits of integration.<br /><br />The historian Gordon Craig has some amusing remarks about "Plicht" in <i>The Germans</i> though he does not use the word itself. I don't know how far it goes to explain the horrors of 1939-1945.<br /><br />"Sign and Sight" is a nifty pun, and an interesting one for this particular blog.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com