At Peter's Gate
WELVE German pilots knocked on | St. Peter’s gate and demanded admission. On being asked to identify themselves, they said they were the German flyers who had been shot down over England that day. St. Peter asked them to wait while he checked with the
lists. On returning to the gate, he said: "Eight of you will have to go back. The High Command report says that only four of you were shot down, and we have to go by the official record!" Quite a neat little
story, dont you think, to illustrate the -unreliability of Nazi war bulletins. But that is not the funniest thing about it. It’s real point is that it is a story which the Berliners were telling one another with many a guilty chuckle and a hasty glance over the shoulder at the time when the Berlin radio and press were reporting the destruction of the British Isles by
raiders with charmed lives.,-
-(Book Talk |
by
John
Moffett
4YA April 22 )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 151, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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168At Peter's Gate New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 151, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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