Monday 24 January 2011

The good Jews of New York City

Fiero LaGuardia was Mayor of New York, which is in New York for those of you not so acquainted with the subtleties of American geography. Apparently there has been a lot of confusion in the past, and so the locals will always reaffirm where they are from if you ask them politely. Anyway, back to the point. Fiero LaGuardia, which translated means 'Wild Airport', was Mayor of New York during World War 2.

Of course America wasn't actually at war during this time. Damned habitual pacifists that they are. They had to wait their turn until the British had mercilessly teased the Germans for many a year with all sorts of trickery and tomfoolery. The Boche were subject to quick fire games of hide and seek (see Dunkirk) or theft of their favourite fireworks (see Blitz), and of course some outrageous name-calling. Boche itself is a French term, which can infer that someone is pig-headed, an abbreviation of tete de boche, however it came to mean rascal. How the Germans raged when they were subject to losing hide and seek, having their fireworks stolen, and then had it all capped off by being called rascals.


The British team tease the Germans by hiding behind a giant wall as they go on to win another game of Hide and Seek

So anyway, Fiero was Mayor of New York. During his tenure he was given the rather enviable task of providing protection for a group of Nazi dignitaries who were visiting the city. Inexplicably at the time, they were all very keen to avoid the Guggenheim museum. Fortunately it hadn't been thought of yet. So they never saw it. Fiero went about selecting the members of the police force to protect the dignitaries. The policemen's names were David, Aaron, Yusef and Avner. Yes, you've guessed it alright. He was trying to make a point. He wanted people to protect the Nazis who had five letters in their name, just like Adolf. He was sending a very firm message to Hitler. It's five letters or no letters. Unfortunately Adolf misconstrued the message and the Americans had to take firmer action.


Jewish 'cops' were used in New York to protect the Nazis

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