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...spring day in 1939, a weary, grey-haired giant slipped across the Czech border. Behind him lay his ravaged homeland, echoing the Wehrmacht's goosestep; before him, Poland's reluctant refuge. The man was Ludvik Svoboda, a battalion commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Verni Zustaneme | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Answer? In Berkeley, Calif., a scientist found that pigs who lacked enough vitamin B took to doing the goosestep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...walks like a duck, runs like a man cut off at the knees. "They didn't charge," said one U.S. officer, describing a Japanese advance, "but crouched forward just a little bit, lifting their knees high in a sort of imitation goosestep. They kept coming forward in pairs, one directly behind the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Japanese | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

CAESARS IN GOOSESTEP - William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rogues' Gallery | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

This week these scattered pieces appeared in book form under the title, Caesars in Goosestep. All the little Caesars were there with their records up to date. There was Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, whom his fellow Rhinelanders call "Jupkin" (insignificant little Joe), and who is so non-Aryan-looking that a policeman once tried to stop him from entering a Nazi rally. "Better not go in there, buddy," said the cop. "They're all anti-Semites." There was the only normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rogues' Gallery | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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