Word: strafed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many German propaganda post-cards are shown, including a special set of cards on the theme of "Gott Strafe England," with high-colored illustrations of zeppelin raids on England and representations of Germanic deities wreaking vengeance on the island kingdom...
With best wishes for a speedy British defeat! Gott strafe die schmutzigen Englander...
...Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much...