entlausunganstalt

Updated: May 25, 2025

On the other side of the lines the Germans were suffering in the same way, lousy also, and they, too, were organizing bath-houses. After their first retreat I saw a queer name on a wooden shed: Entlausunganstalt. I puzzled over it a moment, and then understood. It was a new word created out of the dirt of modern war "Delousing station."

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told