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Impertinent German Communists have snickered recently over a poem in Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), have bellowed at an obscene cartoon in Knüppel (Cudgel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Poem, Cartoon | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...spot where men were busy loading apples into a railway car; and, at the same time, he perceived a familiar face. Where had he met this man? After some ruminating, it suddenly dawned upon him. Approaching the man, the peasant inquired politely: "Excuse me, monsieur, are you not Lieutenant Knätsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Remembered | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

Mighty proud was First Lieutenant Knätsch, who had come to Brittany to buy apples for making German champagne, to have his name and rank remembered; and he replied vigorously that his name was indeed Knätsch. "Good!" exclaimed the Breton. "I have a little account to settle with you." Thereupon, he set about beating the German; and if it had not been for the intervention of workmen the latter would surely have been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Remembered | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...peasant afterwards explained that he had received cruel treatment at the hands of Knätsch while a prisoner-of-war in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Remembered | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

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