Word: verboten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military policemen under orders to arrest fraternizers had their patience tried by a girl who patted her backside and whispered "verboten" every time she passed...
...Hitler's Reich, Germans who risked listening to the verboten radio usually tuned to Deutsche Kurzwellensender Atlantik (Radio Atlantic). It came in like a ton of bricks, and knew so much about Nazidom that many listeners-German and Allied-believed that it was beamed from the German underground. Censorship forbade disclosure that Atlantic was pouring out propaganda to lower German morale, and some U.S. papers printed the propaganda as "news...
...French civilian, H.D.. tells how the last issue of TIME to reach him somehow got through to occupied France, "where the German officers quartered in my home read it with great interest but never figured out that it was verboten literature; the Hun is as stupid as ever." Still another Frenchman writes that "during the Battle of Normandy bombardments and air fights raged all around my house, and it was a miracle that we were saved. It was a great sight when the Americans came." An old lady writes: "I was evacuated and found myself on the highways with...
...camp Nazis tried to censor books in the prison libraries. They put books they did not want their prison mates to read on separate shelves and passed the word that these shelves were verboten. Army officials soon put a stop to that. But positive Nazi propaganda is hard to curb. Because of the scarcity of German-speaking guards, the Nazis can proselyte openly. In one so-called art class, conducted by a Nazi, students diligently repeated lessons right out of the Nazi book: the statue of a racially impure woman is unschön (ugly); art should be Zweck-Kunst...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Larry Whipp was sitting in the dark in his study listening to a verboten BBC broadcast when the Gestapo came. He was expecting them. He had his bags and a pianist's finger-exercising machine packed and waiting. Sadly he turned his beloved grey Gothic cathedral over to the German clergy to make into a Wehrmachtskirche. During the ten months of his imprisonment, he lived with comparative comfort in the American section of the Compiègne internment camp...