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Gerry-made, that is an expression that came out of World War II also,
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made by the Germans, because Gerries was a derogative
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term for Germans-- that they're just kind of like
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playthings, they just kind of blow up and go
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poof and that's the end of it, that they don't really kill.
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And reports put in the civilian press about the hardy,
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vigorous life of these soldiers, because they're in such good shape,
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because they're eating well--which was obviously not the case,
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they're eating frozen potatoes, and when Pétain increases the
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rum ration so they could go over the top a little tipsy
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to get killed in Verdun in 1916.
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So, there was this enormous-- and this is one of the scenes in the