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I'm working on translating from German an "Index of Equipment" for a friend of mine. It seems to be a sort of shipping reciept. At the bottom it reads "O.U. den _______________ 1944" leading me to think that the ______________ should be filled in with the month and day, but I'm not sure what the "O.U." stands for. I googled it and found it at the beginning of a few letters from Nazis, followed by the date there as well. My mother, however, thought it could be an abbreviation for a city, such as seen on European license plates. There is a stamp underneath this as well, but with the bad resolution and smallness and fancy script it's written in, all that I can make out is "Olen_ _ _ _ elle on the top, with an eagle in the middle, and the bottom cut off, which makes me think my mother might have been on to something.
At any rate, I'd like to know what "O.U." stands for. Thanks!
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I had a German translation problem this morning also. But it was because I didn't know what Rammstein's lyrics were about. Google solved that. Hmmm, as for your problem? Contact the closest German teacher. There might be one in your town's high school.
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Though now that I think about it, it could very well be holding one, the year next to the "O.U." being 1944.
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Apparently the document is a sort of list of things that the 4th Zug [Platoon, possibly] was recieving during WWII. As with all documents from the front, no location was ever posted. Instead, a mandatory O.U., standing for Ortsunterkunft, or temporary quarters for troops, was used before the date.
This is a site with letters containing the O.U. , and, for those who can read German and are interested, this is the site I found it at, point 5.1, first paragraph.
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