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Jul. 07, 1953 - Clearance-sale in tortoises: In these days, a strange shipment arrived from Jugoslavia in Uttenreuth, a spot near Nuremberg: 8.000 (Eight-thousand) tortoises. Having very good commercial ties to one of his Balcan trade partners and in an effort to do some good, business, the firm Hans Baer ordered the import of 8.000 turtles. They all were supposed to go into cans, said Baier, but when the shipment arrived some cooks sniffed around the animals with an educated nose, and their statement to the boss was enough to drive him crazy. Instead of turtles, tortoises arrived, and very soon it turned out that absolutely nobody was to be blamed for the shipment but a silly translator who was not fully aware of the fact that the German language knows no proper difference between turtly and tortoise'. Just imagine, shouted Baer, eight - repeat: eight-thousand of these godamn Tito-specimen! I'm broke! He is. Mentally, financially and in every respect. One hard-to-earn good German mark for a tortoise? It's extremely difficult to throw the animals on the market. The only exception are the Nuremberg children who spend a mark or two to get an erotic darling

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