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"There was such a shortage of equipment. We have one rifle for two per truck."
“裝備短缺得很嚴(yán)重，每輛卡車上兩人共用一把步槍。”
"We have one box of ten bullets which we were not allowed to open. It was pathetic"
“我們有一盒十顆子彈但不準(zhǔn)打開。真是可悲”
"If we had what we needed we'd fought, because we're no great friend with Boche."
“若需要的東西都有我們愿意打仗，因?yàn)槲覀兒偷吕胁辉觞N友好。”
The "Boche" was the pejorative term for the German soldiers during the previous war.
“德佬”是上次大戰(zhàn)中對德國士兵的貶稱。
They are also called "vert de gris", which is French means field gray, the colour of their uniform which enable them to blend in with their surroundings.
他們也被稱作"vert de gris"，法語的意思是“原野灰”，那是他們的軍裝的顏色，讓他們能夠隱入周遭的環(huán)境。
But just who are these soldiers?
但這些士兵究竟是誰？
Let's take for example one of these young Germans marching as he sings.
舉例來說這名德國年輕人邊行軍邊唱
"A flag is waving before us. Our flag is a new age. Our flag is stronger than death."
“我們的旗幟在前方飄揚(yáng)，我們的旗幟代表新時(shí)代，我們的旗幟比死亡還強(qiáng)有力。”
His name is Auguste Von Kaganick.
他名叫奧古斯特卡根尼克。
He writes:"I thought that the military career was the right choice."
他寫道：“我認(rèn)為從軍是正確決定。”
"My parents thought so as well"
我父母也這麼認(rèn)為”
"My father would tell me at least there you can still open your mouth and say what you like and you don't have to do that Nazi salute."
“我父親曾告訴我，‘至少你在軍隊(duì)里仍能暢所欲言，而且你不用行納粹敬禮’。”
In September 1939, Auguste Von Kaganick is still training to become a tank commander.
1939年9月卡根尼克仍在接受坦克車長訓(xùn)練。
He writes: "My father who was a general was telling me the French have 40 divisions on the border we have 15, all the rest in Poland"
他寫道：“我的父親曾是將軍。他告訴我，‘法軍在邊界有40個(gè)師，我們只有15個(gè)師，其他部隊(duì)都在波蘭’。”
"5 hundred thousand men against 2 hundred thousand. There're numbers two to one."
“50萬人對20萬人，他們的人數(shù)比我們多一倍。”
French forces attack on September the 7th, 1939,4 days after declaring war.
1939年9月7日，宣戰(zhàn)4天后，法國軍隊(duì)進(jìn)攻。
This offensive launched to show public opinion that Poland has not been abandoned.
進(jìn)攻行動(dòng)是為了反映民意，表示波蘭并未被遺棄。
Advances 8 kilometres into the Saar region.
前進(jìn)8公里進(jìn)入薩爾區(qū)。
The French army's cinema department shows off the spoils of war, bicycles.
法國軍隊(duì)的電影部炫耀戰(zhàn)利品：單車。如我們所見，這些開心的騎士在德國村莊撿到被丟棄的單車
