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Heut' geh' ich zu Maxim...
...Dort bin ich sehr intim...
...were busy with the erection of roadblocks, laying mines, stringing road cables to decapitate drivers and sniping at American soldiers. Then when they were certain that the Americans were there to stay, waving white flags and vociferously claiming to anyone foolish enough to listen that they were never Nazi. "Ich nicht Nazi" were the first words you heard on entering a town. Now these people have the whole world sorry for them. They aren't getting enough to eat. Neither are the Greeks, Dutch, Belgians, Polish, Yugoslavians, Chinese and others who have fought on our side. What kind of allies...
...Dass ich sehe, wer mich besiegt Und wer meine Uhr gekriegt!" (". . . That I may see who conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able...
...motion pictures. Seven years ago she was the center of a great brouhaha when goatish little Paul Joseph Goebbels was beaten up (either by her burly husband, Gustav Frölich, or by friends of his) for being entertained in Lida's chambers. Berliners coined a crack-"Ich möchte so gern fröhlich sein"-which can mean either "I wish I were happy" or "I wish I were Frölich." In Prague last week Lida was indicted by the People's Court as a traitor to Czechoslovakia...