Posted on 05/12/2024 11:48:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
No assignment in the Third Reich’s war machine, nay not even the fearful eastern front, was as dangerous as service in the Kriegsmarine’s U-boat fleet.
Terrors of English shipping in the early war years, these submersible predators became prey once overwhelming U.S. materiel poured into the theater, and Allied intelligence started cracking German signals. By war’s end, fully three-quarters of the wartime U-boat personnel had sunk into watery graves.
And on top of all the intrinsic perils of fighting a losing war from the inside of a submerged tin of beans, you’d better do it with enthusiasm or you’ve got the prospect of going up against the wall like Oskar Kusch did on May 12, 1944.
A submariner since 1937, Kusch come 1943 stood in command of U-154.
He fulfilled his office creditably — that’s what the official history has come to reflect via a postwar rehabilitation — but was ratted out for Wehrkraftzersetzung, a lethal polysyllable meaning “subversion of the war effort”. ......
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
(Wehrkraftzersetzung)
So....he was hampering the Nazi war machine?
Did they get boxes of consonants and vowels, at a garage sale and, just, throw them out there, haphazardly?
LOL
Probably the biggest part of my ancestry.
Why use 4 letters when 13-17 can be used after dumping the Scrabble box?
😂😬😆🤣🤣🤣
19 letters lol
It’s a humor piece by Mark Twain. Deal with it.
https://uboat.net/men/kusch.htm
https://uboat.net/men/commanders/1.html (Abel)
On uboat.net, it appears that Abel is first, alphabetically of all U-Boat commanders.
One of my favorite Twain pieces, especially when I was taking German back in college.
A good Brazillian friend who is a PhD Nuclear Engineer was fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He was my translator when I spoke in Brazil. He is truly one of the smartest people I’ve ever known. A dear man of God too. Black BTW.
He got his PhD in Germany and before he could start his studies he had to spend a year learning German.
He told me that learning German was the most difficult challenge of his life. And he was tri-lingual prior to learning German.
I took 3 years of both German and French. I found German much easier due to its similarity to English. Also, words are at least spelled like they sound. In French, words have spellings that bear no resemblance to their common phonetics in English.
heh
Murdered by Nazis. And his commander Donetz skated.
“Zersetzung” is corrosion or decomposition. “Wehr” is cognate to English “war”; “Wehrmacht” is “armed might” or “war-might”. “Kraft” is power or ability. War-making-ability-corrosion, or (in English we would say) undermining the war effort.
“...he sticks on a foolish and unnecessary E and spells them HAUSE, PFERDE, HUNDE.... There is no such thing as a HAUSE.”
My mother’s maiden name was Hause. Arrived in America in 1770 and by the 20th Century it was pronounced “Hawz.”
Hey, although you don’t have a clue about a language, you posted a ridiculous, idiotic link to make a point!!! 🤣😅
Deal with it!!!
Oh please, this was a comparison to Pferde und Hunde. There is no such thing as a HAUSE. The plural word would be Häuser.
Has nothing to do with names.
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