Word: achtung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve years of Hitler's Gestapo and four years of Stalin's MVD, the long-suffering people of Germany's Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
Starting at midnight, a loudspeaker from the southern end of the courtyard started blaring out, "Achtung! Achtung! Comes the Revolution the blood will flow...
...rehearsal. When Walter entered from the wings, they clapped happily and beat their bows on their instruments. Said the boss: "It is good that we meet again. It is high time, for I am getting a very old man [he was 71 last Monday]. . . . Now, gentlemen, we begin. Achtung!" It was like the old days: they went through God Save the King six times before he was satisfied...
...Achtung . . . Achtung . . . Achtung. . . ." The bleak warning rolled endlessly from German loudspeakers as the Allied air offensive rolled endlessly on against German oil and transport...
...Dauphine Alps, rod-backed Major General Otto Richter, a Nazi who had tried to be like a Junker, led a group from his disorganized 198th German Division into an American ambush. Before he could say Achtung he was a U.S. prisoner...