Timeline for What does the expression something like "Verreck du Ass" mean?
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| Jul 10, 2019 at 15:38 | comment | added | Uwe | @npst Perhaps, but I don't know where it's used and where it isn't. | |
| Jul 10, 2019 at 15:10 | comment | added | npst | Is that humorous alternative a regional thing? I've never heard it in such context. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 22:11 | history | edited | Uwe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | Uwe | Sorry, I was off by one century. The phrase seems to have been popular (in the original pejorative sense) in particular between WW I and WW II. In addition to quotations you found see for instance this text from Remarque, this diary entry, or the testimony reported here. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:57 | history | edited | Uwe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:00 | comment | added | Paul Frost | Very interesting. I didn't know that the expression was used in German literature. Can you give examples? An Internet search provided two occurences: 1) In Hans Fallada's "Jeder stirbt für sich allein" (quotation: "Goebbels, du Aas, verrecke"). 2) In Joseph Goebbels' "Michael" (I didn't know that he wrote a novel ...) | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 11:56 | history | edited | Uwe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 11:49 | history | answered | Uwe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |