“The vast Lumpenproletariat, the product of the devastating Thirty Years’ War, the masses of morally depraved people, of beggars and tramps, accustomed to easy pickings—such was the reservoir from which the Prussian army recruited its soldiers.” PovertyFascismPrussiaThirty Years WarLumpenproletariat Book:Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism Source: Marx and Engels on Reactionary Prussianism