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The Prussian Junker was not a man of leisure. He worked hard at managing
his large estate, much as a factory manager does today. His landless laborers
were treated as virtual slaves. On his large properties he was the absolute
lord. There were no large towns nor any substantial middle class, as there were
in the West, whose civilizing influence might rub against him. In contrast to
the cultivated grand seigneur in the West, the Junker developed into a rude,
domineering, arrogant type of man, without cultivation or culture, aggressive,
conceited, ruthless, narrow-minded and given to a petty profit-seeking that some
German historians noted in the private life of Otto von Bismarck, the most
successful of the Junkers.