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...passed on the generations of Germans who were children when the Nazis came to power, who have never known anything but the Naziism which patiently perverted them? In the vast Nürnberg stadium, G.I.s caught up last week with one such German - now a young, blond Storm Trooper...
Above the little group, captors and captives, towered the marble-and-gold podium, where at Nazi festivals Hitler had once screeched and barked. "Alles Kaputt!" The young Storm Trooper sobbed over & over again. "Alles Kaputt! It's all over. All we have been taught all our lives will be useless now. Alles Kaputt...
...breakfast there were fresh eggs. But many a tight-stomached trooper passed up this crashing luxury and wanted only scalding black coffee. Soon they were at the airstrips, piling aboard the transport planes and gliders, stacked nose to tail in neat, herringbone formation, with their towlines carefully coiled on the ground...
...said the Yank authorities, the hero must have some other name than "Private Breger." After some thought, I decided on "G.I. Joe," the "G.I." because of its prevalence in Army talk . . . and the "Joe" for the alliterative effect. My cartoon hero's full name was "G.I. Joe Trooper...
Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory. He appealed to the quisling Minister of Fine Arts at The Hague. Said the Minister: "Give up the ants." So the Professor carried them off to Berlin, after ostentatiously signing a receipt...