Word: supermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...
...proved that the Japanese could be defeated in the Burma jungle. Just two years ago this month Stilwell led a little column of defeated men & women out of Burma. Then he had made this prophecy : "The Japanese are not supermen. If we go back properly proportioned and properly equipped we can throw them out." The prophecy had begun to come true...
...make North Dakota sound like the last frontier. I'll grant that Watford City, along with the rest of northwestern North Dakota, has had its disasters and prosperity on a more epic scale than other parts of the state, but you don't have to be supermen to survive out here...
Some people have protested against "Lifeboat" because it doesn't show Americans as supermen. We have become accustomed to movies in which the outcome is never in doubt after a strong handsome American stops into the scene. However, "Lifeboat" attempts to break away from this lush banality and bring to mind a truer picture of the character and abilities of our enemy. It will never hurt us to learn that we are not perfect and that occasionally we can be outwitted...
Since early in the war Nazi leaders have spared no effort to keep that morale high. U-boat crews have been treated like the supermen of the super race. When a sub comes in from a long cruise it is met at its base by a brass band, cheering dockworkers, flower-throwing civilians and a quayside loaded with the handsomest girls obtainable, primed to give their all for the returning heroes...