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Word: teutonicus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject satirized. As a longtime professional soldier who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at 17 and saw action with the Wehrmacht in France and Africa during World War II. he gives full marks to courage, loyalty and military skill. Turned blind, these virtues become the "Furor teutonicus," a vice at which Author Opitz takes wry derisive aim, proving that a laugh can be deadlier than a Luger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heil Horlacher! | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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