Word: nichts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nicht ein schones Schwein?" cried the barmaid in the Nazi beer garden, when a pig fell into the beautiful blue Danube (which was muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore...
Stenciled in white on the wings of Nazi buzz-bombs are the words Nicht anfassen (Don't Touch). Britons heartily agree. But some men for professional reasons must get almost within touching distance. "Doc" Salomon...
...last it got too rugged for the Germans. After an hour the prisoners heard frantic cries: "Nicht schiessen." The German machine gunners outside at the gate kept on firing. So did the American attackers But inside the house the German defenders surrendered to their own prisoners, sat down, sweating and white...
Within a week, 65,000 Germans died, 9,000 surrendered. They straggled out of their battered dugouts and mumbled: "Kanonen . . . Kanonen . . . wir können nicht mehr. . . ." (We can stand the cannon no more...
...there while they held up the whole queue, so I helped the German to buy his ticket. While we were putting our tickets and money into our billfolds, the German turned to me and said: "Rather stupid to be mechanical about things when one is in a neutral country, nicht wahr? I just came from Berlin, but I am a Hamburger." As he said the last word, his mouth twitched convulsively...