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Maskenball – German slang for fighting with NBC-protective gear, or at least with gas mask; Maultier – Sd.Kfz. 4 half-track truck, German for mule; Maus – "mouse"; nickname for a large, Porsche-designed super-heavy tank, the heaviest tank ever actually built and tested, that never passed beyond prototype stage.
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
The German word Maus is cognate to the English word "mouse", [117] and also reminiscent of the German verb mauscheln, which means "to speak like a Jew" [118] and refers to the way Jews from Eastern Europe spoke German [119] —a word etymologically related not to Maus but, distantly, to Moses. [118]
Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (English: 'mouse') is a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. As of 2024, it is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed; the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured by the ...
Panzer just means tank in German and Kampfpanzer means battle tank. These are captalised because German capitalises all nouns. Panzer is just a shortening of the fuller descriptor Kampfpanzer (eg Panzerkampfwagen IV or Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger). It is common to refer to a tank just by the model name (eg "He drove a Sherman") in the same way we ...
Maus is a series of Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel style books written by Art Spiegelman. Maus may also refer to: Maus (band), an Icelandic rock band; Maus Castle, a castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; MAUS mine, an Italian designed anti-personnel scatter mine; Maus Frères (Maus Brothers), Swiss holding company
From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts! Often used by U.S. service personnel to mean "It doesn't matter" or "It's not important". [2] strafe – In its sense of "to machine-gun troop assemblies and columns from the air", 'strafe' is an adaptation of the German verb strafen (to punish).