Deutsche Welle, the official propaganda medium of Germany, has a cute weekly corner called the German Word of the Week. Today it is "Kadavergehorsam," literally "cadaver obedience," means abandoning one's own personality in blind, submissive obedience ("gehorsam"). It's usually used to refer to Prussian militarism in the Wilheminian era, covering the reign of William II, who became German emperor in 1888, to the end of the First World War in 1918.
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