May 17th, 2007, 12:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Re: German nicknames
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wulfir said:
The Small Partizans = Lice 
UvD (Unteroffizer von Dienst something like Duty NCO) = Soviet U2 'nightattack' aircraft, because they had a habit of showing up at "unwanted hours."
Horst Wessel Suppe - all the good parts of the soup "marched along in spirit", compare this to the Horst Wessel song where the comrades killed by the communists "marched along in spirit).
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 Thanks for link, now to see what Babel will do to translate.
Cheers, Bob |