durchgeschossen

Updated: May 6, 2025

Most of the crowd was interestedly fingering a grey steel helmet with a heavy steel shield or visor in front of the forehead, evidently meant to be bullet-proof when the wearer looked over the parapet. The prisoner was murmuring something like "Durchgeschossen," "Durchgeschossen." "He says he's shot through," said someone, who understood a little German.

C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean - Letters from France