Tim Worstall

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• 1 Matthew // Feb 8, 2010 at 12:17 pm

  The Berlin Post Office kept going in 1945 almost until the end. The phone system worked to the point where Hitler’s staff in the bunker trying to gauge the extent of the Russian advance were reduced to ‘phoning numbers in the ‘phone directory that were in East Berlin and asking those who answered if they had seen any Russians.

• 2 The Remittance Man // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:16 am

  “Neither common sense nor lack of use nor logic nor loyalty of country stays these penpushers from the slow completion of their unnecessary forms”

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