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Word: oberndorff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared to ask you the conditions of an armistice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Forest, 22 Years After | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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