Word: schleicher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...
Cold and hungry on a diet of cabbage and barley, Schleicher fended for himself once again, and was caught stealing a handful of potatoes. The Russians convicted the P.W. and gave him 25 years at hard labor. Schleicher went to work driving rivets. He spoiled a rivet and a guard hit him with a chain. It broke Schleicher's nose, jaw and-ankle. The Russians sent him to a hospital, and when his ankle refused to mend, they shipped him home. Schleicher got back to Germany in 1948 to find that his wife had remarried and that...