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lol, a lot of small places like this are so remote that they can only be supplied by foot, and are closed in winter :wink: Some local yokel farmers who double as innkeepers in the high country during the summer months traditionally have done this kind of stuff for their guests. In some of these plac...

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I like the Lale Andersen version :)
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A magical tune and a great movie ... I remember watching it the first time it aired on TV when I was a kid :)
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Bravo, well said!

lol, too funny ... such minor details after so many of their years together .... God Bless the both of them!

... und BTW ... Frohe Weihnachten!

fekkin' 'collectors' ...

A wonderful tune, and a nice video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year

Many thanks for yet another one of your wonderfully informative threads, tigre ... what an amazing historical resource!

This one appears to be still available.. http://www.amazon.de/Verkaufte-deutscher-Fremdenlegion%C3%A4r-Erlebnisse-Nordafrika/dp/B0000BG5Z7 Maybe also try getting 'Devil's Guard' by Elsford And likewise .. thanks for the Bacque reference .. I will follow up on it ;) FWIW, not a single Wehrmacht vet I...

An internet search for 'foreign legion' should yield quite a list of books about the FFL, some of which may be based on personal memoirs

lol, FWIW, my own best guess at yet another 'interpretation'… "Once the situation in the East is successfully resolved - and we all hope that this will be accomplished during the course of this summer -, then Europe will be able to, as the Führer would put it, 'for at least a while, be free to ...

lol ... a few terms my dear old dad shared with me a few years ago ... had I not already been sitting on the floor watching TV at the time, I would have fallen out of my chair laughing....
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