Question
Original language term required. In the 1920s, funds that kept these people from bankruptcy were widely embezzled in the Eastern Aid scandal. A popular slogan of Chairman Pieck was to seize these people’s assets and convert them into LPGs or VEGs. The passage of free trade treaties prompted these people to form the Agrarian League, which agitated against the Caprivi government. The Great Elector of (*) Brandenburg reaffirmed these people’s unlimited power over peasants, while his great-great-grandson attempted to curtail their power under the influence of Voltaire. These people, whose name likely derived from words meaning “young lord,” dominated the officer corps of the Hohenzollern army. For 10 points, give the term for Prussia’s landed nobility. ■END■
ANSWER: junkers (“yoon-kers”) [prompt on Prussian nobility or aristocrats or princes or counts or dukes or equivalents]
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1500-1900> ~28498~ <Editor: Hari Parameswaran>
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