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...World War I, 850 officer POWs in the American camp at Richelieu (France) did not sing once during a whole year. But when they marched to the station September 1919, to return to Germany, a minority started a favorite song "Siegreich wollen wir Frankreich schlagen" ("Victorious we will beat the French...
...Wir haben unsere Bomben gerade dortin geschmissen wo wir sie haben wollten. ("We dropped our bombs just where we intended to.") Thus Captain Schumann of the Luftwaffe described for German radio listeners the daytime air attack on London last week. Perhaps Captain Schumann did not know when he made his boast that 42 children (aged six to 16) and six teachers had been killed by a bomb which crashed through the roof of a four-story schoolhouse...
Whether Schmidt's burst was bad-tempered carelessness or a balloon to find out whether neutrals were still afraid of Germany, the answer was the Zurich Volksrecht's headline: "Wir machen nicht mit!" ("We won't play ball...
...fences built with surprising speed around bombed houses in Hamburg a slogan has recently appeared over & over: Dies alles verdanken wir unserem Führer: "For all this we have our Führer to thank...
Germany's failure to cross the English Channel is the subject of many jokes in The Netherlands. Last September Commissioner Seyss-Inquart had to forbid the singing of Wir Fahren Gegen Engelland (We Are Sailing Against England) because small boys followed the singing German troops and on the three drumbeats between verse and chorus yelled: "Swim! Swim! Swim...