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Tinnies Tinnies, anyone?
Ralph A replied to Ralph A's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Organisational Membership Badges & Tinnies
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Tinnies Tinnies, anyone?
Ralph A replied to Ralph A's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Organisational Membership Badges & Tinnies
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I went to school here (E Company!): The Citadel The Citadel fought as a unit in the US Civil War (known there as the War of Northern Aggression), and has 8 battle streamers on their standard (Battles).
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An interesting sidebar: There is a statue of George Washington on the steps of the State Capitol building in Columbia, S.C., that was there at the time of the War. He holds in his hand a walking cane - it's broken off. It was broken during the "unpleasantness", as the War is referred to by genteel Southerners. Who broke the cane? Sherman's troops in 1865. Why? Some say because the bluebellies did not feel that a statue of the Father of the Country should be on the steps of that building - where the Articles of Secession were promulgated (they were signed in Charleston, however, due to an outbreak of smallpox in Columbia). The Yankees tried to remove the statue, but succeeded only in breaking off the cane. It is still broken to this day. Here's the interesting part: The Confederates left the statue there to begin with, because they believed that what they were trying to build was the sort of confederation of states that Washington and the Founding Fathers actually had in mind!
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Sidebar to Rick's translation: "Eigene vs. eignen." ?Funf Mark die Woche musst du sparren; Willst du im eignen Wagen fahren.? An article (American Heritage history series) enthusiastically quoted this KdF blurb as an ?insight? into the state of the German economy of the mid-30?s. It translated the blurb as ?If you ever want to own a car, you?ll need to save?? the point being that a German having an automobile was something relatively rare in that day. But what it really says is ?If you ever want to own a suitable car?? ...which is another thing entirely. tsk tsk. Gotta watch those translations! Moving ONE letter makes all the difference... Did I call this correctly? I wrote a letter to the editor, which went unanswered.
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Tinnies Tinnies, anyone?
Ralph A replied to Ralph A's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Organisational Membership Badges & Tinnies
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Tinnies Tinnies, anyone?
Ralph A replied to Ralph A's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Organisational Membership Badges & Tinnies
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Tinnies Tinnies, anyone?
Ralph A replied to Ralph A's topic in Germany: Third Reich: Organisational Membership Badges & Tinnies