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They had abused their historic function as guiding intelligence of the German people by subjecting it to that evil thing-Nazi totalitarianism. The Frankenstein they had helped to power, their police spy in the absurd trench coat, Adolf Hitler, had at last split their solid ranks...
...mills of the gods were grinding exceedingly small. This time the Junker conspirators had underestimated the striking power and cunning of the little man in the trench coat...
...first three waves got in almost untouched. A battalion executive officer said: "As we hit the beach a scrawny little Jap jumped out of his trench. He was the only Jap we saw for some time after hitting the beach. There was a big rifleman right in front of him. The rifleman was so surprised he forgot to use his weapons. This 6-ft. guy of ours grabbed the Jap and started wrestling with him. He got him by the neck and shook him, swinging him all the way around. He had almost killed the Jap with his bare hands...
...bulky German in a black steel helmet loomed above our trench, pointed his submachine gun at us and yelled "Hända hoch, heraus-Hands up, get out." Pouring out blasphemies, an officer with bulging eyes and thick lips searched us for guns, took away our papers and hit Talbot for not raising his injured right arm high enough. With a curse he threw my ten-dollar bills to the ground; I picked them up and put them back in my pocket. Then he pulled two photographs out of his speckled parachute dress and asked: "Do you know who this...
...Fifteen paratroopers started out with two heavy machine guns across the young wheatfields toward the wooded, Partisan-held ridge a mile off to the west. To the right and to the left of me similar small groups were advancing in the same direction, some carrying heavy trench mortars...