Word: pfenniger
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...John and St. Joseph are all due to come before the denazifying Spruchkammer at Garmisch-Partenkirchen within the next few weeks. Bearded, cherubic Hubert (St. Peter) Mayr, who runs the village creamery, joined the party in 1937, and now says: "Why not? It cost me one mark, 50 pfennig-which I could afford. If I didn't join, they'd have said a non-Nazi doesn't deserve to have that nice creamery, and it would have cost me plenty...
When Germany issued a special twelve-pfennig stamp advertising Italo-German solidarity (with pictures of Hitler and Mussolini, fasces, swastika and inscription) the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast: "Now we can lick them both at once...
Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...
...harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting, Hitler-aping Naziphile Joseph ("Joe McNazi") McWilliams (TIME, Sept. 23) leader of the American Destiny Party, was 1) rolled flatter than a pfennig in last week's Congressional primaries in Yorkville (Germanic), 2) convicted of disorderly conduct for stirring up an anti-Semitic fracas, 3) committed by a judge to Bellevue's psychiatric ward for ten days' observation...
...boys in Watertown, Wis., and Herr Hitler's own agent in Milwaukee had told him about the glorious opportunities in the new Nazi Fatherland. One fine day last spring, with 150 other Wisconsin families, the Loefflers picked up and went. The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig...