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Ride a bicycle for each distance shorter than 5 kilometres. It works, I assure you. It may save you a few bucks, too.

Frank

Nationalism. The vice of Eastern and South Eastern Europe. It was rooted in 19th century and nothing good whatsoever has come from it.

Frank

OK Tom , what do you mean: 'Krieg s sprache' ['Krieg' is Gen.m.], "die Sprache des Krieges", i.e. 'the language of war' or 'Kriegsprache', that would be rather colloquial? Other minor things: abgekämpft - why not simply 'worn out'? Panzertod - nothing else is allowed by German grammar (see...

Some corrigenda: The retreat mentality, a partly existing [not everywhere] and shaming overestimation of the Bolsheviks, a partly [not completely] defeatist Intelligence service and an absolutely unsoldierly fear of enemy artillery shots, so-called "tank traps" and of being continually &qu...

Hi canon, O II, also O 2 [they agreed on some things, but not on abbrevs.] means 2. Ordonnanzoffizier (usually a rather junior officer), the first aide to the Ib, the 'second general staff officer', whose job was supply [~quartermaster?]. In NATO terms this would approximately mean G4 for the Ib and...

Table of contents: http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz116311479inh.htm Publisher's info: http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz116311479vlg.htm Review by Jost Dülffer (in German): http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=6114 Another review (also in German): http://www.sehepunkte.de...

Hi Misan,

I'm not sure if this helps you, but are you asking about the 'Technische Nothilfe'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TENO

Info about this organisation is not that easy to get

Hi Richard, some minor suggestions: it seems that 'Lerge' is not translatable. It can mean almost anything: male or female, positive or negative. It's kind of a distinctive mark for people from Breslau. Du konntest sie vielhunderttausendfach bergen I think 'bergen' is poetically for 'beherbergen': t...

Hi Richard,

Sachen (coll.)=clothes

None of us could change clothes during the following 48 hours.

'Sachen' is an abbrev. of 'Anziehsachen' (also coll.) ~ 'things to put on'

Moltke d. J.