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the joke's devastating effectiveness
at a range of up to 50 yards.
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Fantastic!
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All through the winter of '43...
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we had translators working
in joke-proof conditions...
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to try and manufacture
a German version of the joke.
:49:48
They worked on one word each
for greater safety.
:49:51
One of them saw two words by mistake and
had to spend several weeks in hospital.
:49:56
But apart from that,
things went ahead pretty fast.
:49:59
And by January
we had the joke in a form...
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which our troops couldn't understand,
but which the Germans could.
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So on July the 8th, 1944...
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the joke was first told
to the enemy...
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in the Ardennes.
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Squad, teIl the joke!
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ln action, it was deadly.