Stories tagged “Germans”
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The Touch of Winter
Vasily waited. He was good at waiting. He’d been good at it before the war started. Now it served him even better. Be patient, he told his students, Winter kills with coldness. In the dark, it was difficult to see anything moving at all amongst t...
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Through the Iron and the Trees
I wonder if he has family back home. That’s a stupid question, of course he does. Seventeen, eighteen at best. I don’t know how the drafting worked with them. Maybe it was like ours. Maybe he lied about his age. Maybe he was forced in. I wo...
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Through the Trees
“Squat and drop”, Sarge always says. I have it down to a science. All I need is twenty seconds to pinch a loaf, but the Germans wouldn’t even give me that on Christmas Eve. I’m caught with my pants down. Literally. The German made one mista...