The Archive · 1940

A Good One

"Peterborough" in the "Daily Telegraph" tells a story which I must pass on:

A peasant woman on her 102nd birth-gay was ordered by Goebbels to broad-east her thanks to the Fuehrer.

At the rehearsal she was told to say: God bless Hitler for all he has done for the German people." In her nervousness she said: "God bless Bismarck for all he has done for the German people."

She was carefully corrected, but when she appeared before the microphone her memory. again collapsed. This, time she began: "God bless the Kaiser."

The ex-Kaiser heard of this and asked the woman to come and see him in Doorn.

When she was admitted into the Imperial presence she fell on her knees and said loudly "Hell Hitler!"

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