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A Blitz In Bitz
breezed over the air lately to indicate which way the Nazi wind is blowing. A number of generals are said to have been permanently waived or swasticked-off by Himmler’s experts. Hitler is reported to be suffering a serious jitterblitz, and the military are trying to convince the people that "all is going to plan"-but they don’t say whose plan. To furnish a little more cold comfort, General I. C. Winter is preparing his annual Pincers Movement. G tree substantial straws have
Furthermore, oil is said to be slipping, and Hitler knows that this is an oil-in struggle. Taking it oil-in-oil, there is every reason for Adolf to have one of his queer turns, Then there are those Russian Guerrillas, who dwell among trees and remind the Germans that they are not out of the wood. Germans who have taken villages find they are mistaken. Their plans are constantly monkeyed up by Guerrillas. In the middle of the night, their (Continued on next page)
LISTENINGS (Continued from previous page) sleep is either broken or permanently prolonged by bands who, according to the Book of Blitz, are beaten, broken, routed and rubbed out. It is all very caddish of the Russians not to stay dead, according to plan. The Germans say that such conduct proves how right they were to stab such a treacherous neighbour in the back by attacking his front. The trouble is that the Nazis can’t say now which is his
back and which is his’ front, The Blitz bubble is burst. And it was such a good Blitz, too. Hitler produced the Blitzkreig and Stalin the Blitz-scrag. The Germans are now talking of a war of attrition, while the Russians speak of the business as "The war of the Ruses." In any case, the Blitz has been oblitzerated:
Hitler had a bonzer Blitz To scare his neighbours into fitz, And give his henchmen, Hans and Fritz, The notion other men were nitz. At first some nations lost their witz, When tanks and guns and Messerschmittz Blew opposition into bitz. But Stalin, Joe, of Moscowits,
Said "Let us deal some shrewder hita To Hitler and his phony Blitz, Let’s put the boot in where he sitz, Until he wants to call it quitz © But they who formulate a Blitz Must pay the piper when it splitzAnd they will pay it, Hans and Frits, Before the Nazi symbol flitz." And so he gave the Nazis Fitz, And blew their Blitzkrieg into bitz feoe
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 112, 15 August 1941, Page 14
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