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DER TAG-END! : CAPTURED German officer is reported to have told the Russians that, when they heard that Hitler had faken over supreme -~command, they said "This is the end!" But they probably said it more tactfully than that. Something in this style: "Our splendid Fuhrer has taken over the army." "What, not the whole army? Heil Hitler! Gott save the army!" "Ja! Der whole army! Every retreating German soldier will now be led back by our clever Fuhrer. Heil- and farewell!" "What splendid news! Our Fuhrer, who was a corporal in the last war and is a wash-out in this war, is to guide us in our great advance back into Germany. Heil Hitler! What a blow!" "Ts it not a grand thing that our Fuhrer, who despises judgment and goes by intuition, should guide our destiny? Heil! We’re up a gum’ tree!" "Ja! It is indeed true that our future is in our good Fuhrer’s hands. Heil Hitler! Our future is behind us!" "What luck: Now we need fear no more. Where hope is not, fear is not Heil Hitler!" (Continued on next page)
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"It is not for us to criticise our great leader, It would be disloyal to say that as a soldier he isn’t a sergeant’s batman. Heil Hitler! We’re in the soupand there’s no soup!" "Is it not fortynate that our best generals have gone to another place to make way for our dear Fuhrer? Now everything will go with a bang. Heil the Big Noise! We're bust!" "Our good Fuhrer says all will soon be finished. He’s tellin’ us." All together, "Heil! It is der tag-der tagend!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 8
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