Word: schluss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the only genuinely popular slogan that went through Germany immediately after the capitulation was Schluss mit der Soldatenspielerei (No more of this soldier business...
...Schluss! Schlussi" The radio spewed an endless stream of exhortation to all true Germans, of threats to traitors, cowards, shirkers, defeatists. All Army "stragglers" and all males over 13 were ordered to report for Volksstürm duty. The defense of the city was laid out in three zones: 1) the suburbs, including Potsdam, Erkner, Bernau, Lankwitz; 2) the outskirts of the city proper; 3) an inner citadel based on the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden. Even the zoo was fortified...
Someone broke into a radio announcement by yelling, "Schluss! Schluss!" ("Finis...