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Word: kriegsverl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: By Bits & Pieces | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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