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  • But with his back to the sand-bags stayed a German Unter-offizier, enormous, sweating, apoplectic with rage, who fired two revolver shots in our direction.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • "To break the ranks and run mit knives would make my old Unter-offizier Kritzer very mad indeed."

    The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Ach Gott! ein offizier? "she exclaimed, in consternation, born of German associations.

    Under Fire Charles King 1888

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