Word: achtung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was an ugly side to this lovely Norman landscape. The winding country lanes were posted with German signs bearing a skull and crossbones and the bilingual warning 'Achtung Minen,' and 'Attention aux Mines...
Taut-voiced Germans at other micro phones never let their audiences forget this horror. One minute there would be a brief escape in music. Then a strident voice would break in: "Achtung, achtung! Now we shall give you the air-situation report." That meant that the bombers were back again. Sometimes it was nothing to worry about-at least for one's own safety. The voice would say "Enemy bomber formations are approaching southwestern Germany . . ." and the music would begin again...
They watched with interest as the uneasy inspection party tramped up the sandy hills of the tree-shaded slope where their camp is laid out, in the Choccolocco Mountains. When the visitors turned into a barracks there was a scramble within, a roared Achtung. A noncommissioned officer swung his leg, clicked his heels and flung his arm up in the Nazi salute (which the U.S. conducting officer acknowledged, American-style). Beside their cots blue-shirted prisoners stood stony-faced, rigidly at attention...
...medals (including the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross), a bust in his native Novosibirsk. But the highest prize comes through his earphones when he slashes into enemy formations. Then the German flight leaders identify his plane with its cluster of red stars-one for each aircraft downed -and shout "Achtung, Achtung-Pokryshkin...
...Over the German home radio a soldiers' chorus was cheerfully bellowing out Wir Fahren Gegen Engelland. Suddenly came a flourish of martial music, and a hoarse voice cried: "Achtung! Achtung! Enemy planes are over northwest Germany!" Then the station went...