Word: kamerad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw my hands high in the air, yelled 'Kamerad!' and surrendered. Three of them came at me with raised rifles. . . . When they were a rifle's length away from me, I asked one to search my breastpocket. He took out my identification and the special photographer pass signed by Eisenhower himself. . . . I let my hands drop, took their picture and promised it would appear in LIFE magazine...
...people of Europe. We have seen the ghastly results of the atrocities committed by these same apple pickers. We have seen our comrades go down under German machine-gun fire and torn to bits by artillery and mortar shells. We have heard the Nazis manning these weapons cry "Kamerad" when their ammunition was gone or the going got tough. These men are cold, brutal, and trained from childhood as killers...
...didn't stop-they literallv leaped toward the enemies' trenches through the half-light. Two trod on mines and had their feet blown off, but their moans, if they moaned, could not be heard, for the Jocks' Sten guns were chattering and terrified Jerries were yelling, "Kamerad! Kamerad...
Fourteen months ago 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, escaped from a Canadian prison camp, got in touch with Stephan, who gave him money and two days' food and lodging. Recaptured in San Antonio, Krug blandly served as star witness against Kamerad Stephan. The District Attorney did not ask the death penalty. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, however, ruled stiffly that would-be traitors needed a lesson, sentenced Stephan to hang. Three times the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case...
From Captain Berdine came an order to pick up survivors. Latticed cargo nets were slung over the stern sides. Single lifelines dangled from the forward decks. Several bobbing Germans drifted within range, shouting "Kamerad! Kamerad!" A few hundred yards away the U-boat rocked and rolled, waves washing higher & higher over its knife-slim deck. She began to settle by the stern...