verdamnt

Updated: May 26, 2025

In places the legs and arms protruded, brushing us as we passed. However, this was war and quite ethical. Naturally we had to crowd by the other occupants of the trench. And each took a poke at us as we went by, some with their bayonets, saying: "Verdamnt Engländer" and: "Engländer Schwein," pigs of English. Also quite a number of them spoke English after a fashion.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland

"Little Willie" thought it scarce worth their while to bother with so small a bag; that it would not be worth the trouble to send a miserable ten of Verdamnt Engländer back to the Fatherland Better to kill them like the swine they were.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland

A Canadian who was forced to work in a munitions plant and whose task included the replacing of waste in the wheel boxes of cars enjoyed himself for a while, lifting the greasy waste out and replacing it with sand. He got ten years for that. The German in charge of our laager hated the verdamnt Engländer and lost no opportunity of bulldozing and threatening us.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland