A correction re: Ernst Udet

16 August 2007, 04:13 AM

Yes, I should have remembered "Meyer."

tcrean7828 · 16 August 2007, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Lanciaman

Yes, I should have remembered "Meyer."

Ok,

I'll bite who was Meyer?????

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tcrean7828

tom

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16 August 2007, 11:53 AM

I'm new here and I think you are chumming by asking "who is Meyer," but I will answer it anyway:

Meyer was nobody, just a Jewish-sounding name that came to Goering when he said "If British bombers ever appear over Berlin my name is Meyer."

Goering was a kidder. He also reputedly said "When somebody mentions the word 'culture,' I reach for my revolver." Yet he became the biggest art thief in history.

Bruno Stachel · 16 August 2007, 01:44 PM

I don't know if it was a Jewish sounding name. But I believe "Meyer" is a fairly common surname in Germany. So Goering was saying, "You can call me Joe Shmo, Joe Dirt, etc" (a lowly commoner). No offence to anyone named Meyer.

I can't remember where I heard this, but the story has it that the people (survivors) of Hamburg used the "Meyer" name very often after the fire bombings.