Word: packbier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harbach, a U.S. military court tried Karl Packbier and his friend, Robert Hogen, for hiding three German soldiers on Helen's farm. On trial, Herr Hogen and Herr Packbier turned out to be middleaged, prosperous, respectable-and innocent. Had not the Allies' broadcasters instructed Germans to give every aid to German deserters? Acquitted, Herr Hogen and Herr Packbier bowed their thanks to the court, walked out with dignity...
Evidence was indisputable. The soldiers had been captured in Herr Hogen's farm buildings. Herr Hogen's stolid wife admitted giving them food and clothing. One of the soldiers was Packbier's brother. With a rush of guttural oratory (which had to be laboriously translated), Hogen and Packbier made their clever defense...
...cautioned by his Catholic pastor to keep his mouth shut. At the time they were hiding the soldiers, Horbach was a frontline town not yet solidly occupied by Allied troops. General Eisenhower's proclamations about turning in German soldiers had just been tacked up. Hogen and Packbier had not had a chance to read them before they were arrested...
Then they played their defense trump: the Allies had been broadcasting appeals to civilians to help German soldiers desert; Hogen and Packbier were only following General Eisenhower's instructions; the three soldiers were trying to desert from the Wehrmacht...
...took the court five minutes to acquit Hogen and Packbier on all counts...