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...little girls repeated after the teacher: "Do not answer Ja, say Oui, ma soeur. . . . Voici la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crucifix. This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...
...grey, foggy day when he was sworn in by Army officers, Herr X looked nervous and tense, stared straight in front of him, spoke only when spoken to. A correspondent asked him: "Do you have a house here?" Herr X answered carefully: "Ja, but it is not standing." As the oath of office was read aloud, he listened attentively, solemnly responded: "Ja." Next day Herr X climbed into a captured German car and drove into his bomb-scarred municipality in search of equally reliable citizens to be his councilors, civil officers, policemen. As Bürgermeister, his own authority will...
...bandaged head, sweeping his submachine gun toward the four of us and the civilians. "Yes," answered an officer. "Separate these four." The soldier ordered the four of us to line up against the back wall of the house. "But we are American and British officers," I protested in German. "Ja, ja, ja," bellowed the soldier, and pushed me toward the wall...
...afternoon, in a village near Cassino, German soldiers walked up to the door of a battalion command post, clicked heels, saluted snappily and called out: "1st der Herr Hauptmann da?" The answer was always the same: "Ja, der Hauptmann ist hier." Each German strode confidently into the building-and out of the war, a prisoner...
...Ja. Ich bin aber Amerikaner," I said without looking at him. I turned to the Danish pilot and began talking about bad flying weather...