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Word: nein (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied patrol crossed the Ruhr River to parley with the German major commanding Duisburg, and called on him to surrender. He said nein. Nowhere else around the perimeter was there any visible inclination to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Thorny Package | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Aber nein" said Victoria. "We came here with our neighbors, and we want to stay with them. We pray for the war to be over. Then we all want to return to our homes. Perhaps we will live that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Two Old Ladies | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Piecemeal Surrender. Amid formality as stiff as an inspection on West Point's plains, Collins asked Schlieben to surrender the entire Cherbourg garrison. The answer was a quick, emphatic "Nein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The General's Compliments | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Good sequence: Woolley's last waif, the half-Jewish niece of a Gestapo agent, is brought to the dock for transshipment to the U.S. with the help of the Piper. She heils Hitler. Her Gestapo uncle reproves her. "Nicht mehr Heil Hitler?" she asks. "Nein," warns her uncle. "Gut!" says the solemn little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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