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    Look Back in Anger

    Jul 24, 2018 3 minutes
    —Nancy Tappan

    This statement appeared in Die Entstehung von Kriegslegenden Festellungen über die englische Heldentat des amerikanischen Sergeanten York am 8.10.18. That official German government report—“The Origin of War Legends: An Investigation of the Alleged Feat of Sergeant York, October 8, 1918”—was researched and written in 1929 by a military historian as a retort to a Swedish newspaper story lionizing Alvin York.

    The article had outraged a German

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