Word: schwein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nicht ein schones Schwein?" cried the barmaid in the Nazi beer garden, when a pig fell into the beautiful blue Danube (which was muddy-brown) and floated on a board past the ancient German city of Regensburg. "Ja, das ist ein schönes Schwein!" wailed the hungry, war-worn customers. Even the portly mayor of Regensburg forgot his civic dignity, flopped on his belly, and lost his umbrella trying to hook the pig. "Swim after it, drag it ashore-and report to me!" roared Nazi Gauleiter Stoltz. But the pig was deaf to Hitlerism. It only stepped ashore...
...bail out near Hamburg last July. He landed "almost in the arms" of three German soldiers, was herded with seven other Americans into a box car, trundled to Lüneburg. At a way station an angry crowd gathered, threw rocks, splashed hot coffee on the flyers, shouted "Schwein," worked up a lynching temper. The guards motioned to the prisoners to follow, started dodging through blacked-out alleys toward a police station. Another crowd blocked the way, and one or two of the soldiers offered to lend the prisoners revolvers if shooting started. It did not, but Benny was sure...
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