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

...German officer gave an order to a tankman, who opened fire on the Americans with a pistol. Another German in an armored car methodically sprayed the hapless captives with a Schmeisser submachine gun. Some fell to the ground, dead or wounded. A few fell, shamming dead. After the submachine gun was silent, German noncoms walked among the fallen Americans, systematically shooting all who moved or moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Murder | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...spread through the hills, towns and cities : a remarkable Croat named Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich. Young, strong women like Stana Tomashevich marched and fought like men. Their favorite weapon was the German Schmeisser machine pistol. Their favorite song was a haunting old air sung to these words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Area of Decision | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...earth-mound Norman hedges, along the ditches and sunken roads. They fought with hand grenades, shot each other point-blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: War and Weather | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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