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...bears preyed on the swine...
...July 22, 1943 in prison camp at Medicine Hat, Alta., Sergeant Schwalb and another Afrika Korps man, Private Adolf Kratz, decided that a fellow prisoner, August Plaszek, was an anti-Nazi "swine," apparently because he objected to the ironhanded rule of the prisoners by a Nazi clique. So Schwalb and Kratz hanged Plaszek. They were tried for murder in a civil court, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged...
...open gates when they were discovered by a little Italian corporal who saw the British boots under the faked uniforms. The gates swung shut. Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind, so Christian, so hundred per cent generous with you filthy bastards. . . . And this is my reward. . . . How many got away...
...German artillery batteries had deliberately shattered Louvain University's Library in 1940, the second time in two wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...
...Frau Kube's twelve swine was a brown-haired, blue-eyed girl named Galya Mazanik. In the chamber where Commissioner Kube slept alone, innocent-looking Galya planted a mine one September evening in 1943. It was a dud. Back she went, this time tossed in a hand grenade. It worked...