Word: jawohling
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...ever since Frederick William I forged a powerful officer corps from the Prussian nobility more than 200 years ago. Today's officers may lose their Herr (meaning Mr.) as a result of a 1968 protest by a group of German noncoms who complained that such pompous jawbreakers as "Jawohl, Herr Oberstleutnant" were undemocratic. The proposed form of address ("Jawohl, Oberstleutnant") is hardly casual, but it has caused grumbling among some traditionalists. The brass generally regard it as a good idea. Nor is it unprecedented. Hitler long ago banned Herr in his infamous SS corps, not out of a sense...
...lashed out at the principle of Innere Führung, or "inner direction." This Riesmanesque notion holds that an army must be more than a goose-stepping collection of robots blindly obeying orders. The soldier is supposed to follow commands because he understands the reasons for them, rather than jawohl-ing out of automatic respect for, or fear of, authority. Though all officers are obliged to take courses in Innere Führung, some are unhappy about it. Brigadier General Heinz Karst charges that inner direction has produced an "unsoldierly army...
...Pope, according to one lyric, "flew to Galilee across the Apostolic See." Yuk. Chancellor Erhard, someone announced, admiringly changed the name of Unter den Linden to Unter den Lyndon. Hah, hah, jawohl Within the Republican Party there is a "strong underground movement" for Richard Nixon (onto the screen popped an old news photo of Nixon wearing a coal miner's headlamp...
...remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...
Shrilly Hausner asked if Eichmann believed that the Nürnberg death sentences carried out against top Nazis were just. Eichmann replied with a weak jawohl. When court recessed, Eichmann leaned forward dazedly, his head almost touching the glass of his protective cage...