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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...
...supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this war, marched down again. The Germans did some fairly heavy shelling farther east in the Wissembourg sector, to which the French replied in kind. On the Rhine frontier, the French tried some heavy machine-gunning across the river at Kehl. The Germans...
...strafe England" and "God save the King...
...During heavy fighting north of Sarreguemines, German fighting planes flew out in force for the first reported time, to strafe advancing ground troops. Allied pursuits whipped out to meet them, claimed the upper-hand at dogfighting...