Milsurp After Hours

"Blond genug".

This phrase is apparently in German, but what is its real meaning.and where and when would it have been used?

This post does pertain to MilSurps.... sort of. Anyone who gets it gets to have a free post on the forum of their choice.

Eoin.

genug means "enough," but blond isn't a german word, as far as I know.

Some kind of bi-lingual hybrid? 'Fair enough,' perhaps.

What that has to do with rifles, I haven't a clue.

MM

(Baffled in WV)

Close but not enough info.

You win half a post, Mozark

Eoin.

I also translate it as fair enough, my recollection of its source is from a WW2 POW escape book, Colditz, Wooden Horse or some such.

It was used as part of the hybrid pidgin Deutch used by some of the prisoners to confuse and annoy the guards, there were a few other terms in the book but I can't remember them.

I suppose that POWs could be seen as Military Surplus depending on your point of view.

Och! Mon ye fair hit th' targe. Ye canna beat an oul' marksman.

It was 'fair enough' and naturally did confuse the Germans, their own fair enough is 'Na gut' or 'Na schon'.

I,too, forget which book it was. My connection to MilSurp was that the users would have been familiar with the Lee-Enfield and were being guarded with, mainly, 98s.

For being so astute and getting it all right you win first prize, Adam.

"Blond genug?"

Eoin.

yes, absolutely right, Adam. What a fine memory. The book was Esacpe from Colditz. I believe the author to be Ried, I lack the first name. An enthralling book, I read it a number of times in my teens. The tunnel under the kitchen, the wooden horse (of course) and all that goon baiting, led by Douglas Bader. Anyone read Baders' biography? Reach for the Sky, is the title I think. A truely remarkable man.

Michael

Actually, now that I think about it, it may have been in The Colditz Story, same author, first book, early war.

Nowadays German it means if written with big first letter that the hair is fair (blonde). Often fair-haired. But if it is a MilSurps term, I do not know.

Aughnanure wrote:"Blond genug".
This phrase is apparently in German, but what is its real meaning.and where and when would it have been used?

This post does pertain to MilSurps.... sort of. Anyone who gets it gets to have a free post on the forum of their choice.


Eoin.

My favorite has always been "ferd meird."