THE POLISH WAR OF NERVES
Despite the strict control and supervision exerc'sed by the German authorities, the people of Warsaw and other cities find ways of expressing their feelings openly about their oppressors, and of making them feel how little they are wanted. The practice of writing inscriptions and slogans on walls at night, despite the curfew hours, is common, and a highly popular trick is the modification of official proclamations and announcements so as to make nonsense of them, or to give them the opposite meaning to that intended. An example of the Poles grim humour was given shortly after the assassination of Igo Sym. The German authorities, as was at that time their custom, posted a proclamation that a certain number of the hostages taken from the Polish population* after the assasination had already been shot. The proclamation was signed by "Gruppenfulirer Moder." During the following night every notice was altered with chalk, pencils, etc., to make the signature read: "Morder." "Murder. 5 "
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 68, 22 June 1942, Page 4
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165THE POLISH WAR OF NERVES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 68, 22 June 1942, Page 4
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