Georg Rauch

“Two well-known Austrian folk figures, Count Rudy and Count Bobby, are standing in front of a globe and Rudy asks, "What are all these pink spots?"
Bobby replies, "Those are England with all her colonies."
"And what about the purple spots?"
"Those are France and her colonies."
"Well, then," Rudy asks, "what is that great big green area over there?"
"Oh, that's the United States of America."
"And how about the enormous orange one?"
"That's Russia."
"Do you happen to know what this little, teeny-tiny brown spot is?"
"That's Germany."
At this point Rudy becomes quite pensive, and then very quietly asks the question of the century, "Do you think Hitler knows that?”
― Georg Rauch, An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

“The shots and shouts of the attackers rang out quite clearly but were already gone some distance away. Here I lay on my back in the warm sun; under the circumstances, I would have been expected to spring to my feet and begin attempting to justify mu most awkward situation. Defying all the rules, still flat on my back, I cracked my heels together, threw my hand to my forehead in salute, and yelled up to the oberleutnant, "Funder Rauch died for the Führer, Folk, and the Fatherland!" Where there's a war, there have to be dead bodies, I reasoned”
― Georg Rauch, An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army