Word: kaput
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...German losses have undoubtedly been heavy, but for once BBC's conservatism can be doubted. If the Germans had lost 3,000,000 dead, their total casualties would certainly have been over 6,000,000 and three-quarters of the Army would be kaput...
...Turks, French and English are brothers,' he said. He thrust out two fingers of one hand and one of the other, brought them together and continued: The Alleman [Germans] and Russ are the enemy. We brothers are a big wall together. Alleman kaput!' "The crowd around him roared with laughter at 'Alleman kaput,' signifying Germany would be beaten...
...once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators of things that are holy" to the Nazis. Thus kaput was written to their German careers...
Munitions maker Irénée du Pont remembered with a Christmas present Senator Gerald Prentice Nye and each member of his Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. Mr. du Pont's present, in each case: a copy of Kapoot (kaput: "done for"), an account of Russian poverty and industrial inefficiency by Grant Carveth Wells...