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DetlefK

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3. A great novel on that topic: "The Good Soldier Švejk"

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 11:46 AM

Jan 2014

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk

A dealer of stolen dogs enlists to the military during WWI and sabotages it with passive resistance. (The reader never finds out whether this is through stupidity or deliberate.)

It was turned into a black&white TV-series and is still very popular in Germany.

The scene I remember best:
He and a friend have spent their last evening together at their local tavern, before they join the army in respective units.
What do they say as a goodbye, standing in front of the tavern?
"See you after the war at 8 (pm)."

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