Word: verboten
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...VERBOTEN ERLAUBT Yachting Volleyball Rowing Football Cycling Basketball Skiing Hockey Trapeze work Tennis Weight lifting Bowling Field athletics Skating Mountain climbing Fishing Boxing Elementary calisthenics Jujitsu
Adolf Hitler, onetime world's foremost book-banner, became a banned author in Germany. A German "sifting committee" blacklisted Mem Kampf, also hung verboten signs on the works of Historian Oswald Spengler, Novelist Knut Hamsun, Explorer Sven Hedin, some 2,000 other writers...
...evening, when two G.I.s hollered up to the window of the house out of which the Mädchen were giggling like bobby-soxers. Said one G.I. : 'Hey there, Brigitte, how ya doing, Baby? How about us coming up? It's not verboten any more.' His conversation was a combination of German, French, English and arm motions. A few minutes later the two soldiers ambled through the front door of the two-story cottage. This reporter did not bother to find out how Brigitte and Corporal Harry had become so friendly without being able to talk...
Military policemen under orders to arrest fraternizers had their patience tried by a girl who patted her backside and whispered "verboten" every time she passed...
...Hitler's Reich, Germans who risked listening to the verboten radio usually tuned to Deutsche Kurzwellensender Atlantik (Radio Atlantic). It came in like a ton of bricks, and knew so much about Nazidom that many listeners-German and Allied-believed that it was beamed from the German underground. Censorship forbade disclosure that Atlantic was pouring out propaganda to lower German morale, and some U.S. papers printed the propaganda as "news...