Word: tedeschi
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...remained. They were the half-crazed, grief-shocked people who welcomed the Fifth. Hysterical at deliverance from the Nazis, they bombarded the Allied soldiers with flowers, fruits, "vivas and kisses. Men and boys came out of holes, too, carrying rifles and grenades. Packs of them screaming vengeance on the Tedeschi (the Germans) swarmed through the streets, drawing their hands menacingly across their throats, firing their guns indiscriminately. Some of them were murderers and thieves whom the Germans, with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were...