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Word: haben (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago a huge billboard covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Grave Election | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...haben unsere Bomben gerade dortin geschmissen wo wir sie haben wollten. ("We dropped our bombs just where we intended to.") Thus Captain Schumann of the Luftwaffe described for German radio listeners the daytime air attack on London last week. Perhaps Captain Schumann did not know when he made his boast that 42 children (aged six to 16) and six teachers had been killed by a bomb which crashed through the roof of a four-story schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Retaliation | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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