Word: alsatian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountain road out of the Alsatian village of Climbach was crawling with German supply trucks. Climbach had to be taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...
...attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village to rubble. Later the Yanks retook...
There Is Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish pianist-composer (of French-Polish parents) was Germanized by the same Nazis who have banned his music in occupied Poland since 1939. Chopin, they announced, was "of course German," a descendant of an old Alsatian family named Schopping...
...with thrice-married, 33-year-old Count Alfred de Marigny and announced that they had eloped. Nancy was 18 that week. Her father roared, her mother wept, her set raised their eyebrows. They were remembering De Marigny's first wife, well-endowed Lucie-Alice Cahen, an Alsatian girl whom he married in Paris in 1937. Four months later they were divorced, and the Count failed to observe the code and return the dowry...