# I need a translation of the German phrase 'öffentlicher Arm"..public face of ??

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**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947 "2018-09-26T12:42:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/1 "2018-09-26T12:42:29Z")

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Hi  
I hope someone can help me translate the German phrase 'öffentlicher Arm"…public face of ??

I look forward to your feedback

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/2 "2018-09-26T12:49:48Z")

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Context? The whole sentence would help. I see Google turns up a book wherein a stray space has crept into “öffentlicher Armenpflege” (= “public care of the poor”).

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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/3 "2018-09-26T13:32:06Z")

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> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> Context? The whole sentence would help. I see Google turns up a book wherein a stray space has crept into “öffentlicher Armenpflege” (= “public care of the poor”).

> **[Mit Biden als Vize hat Obama seine Basis verraten](https://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.com/2008/08/mit-biden-als-vize-hat-obama-seine.html)**
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> Mit der Ernennung von Joseph Biden zum Vize-Kandidaten, hat Barack Obama seine Antikriegsbasis komplette verraten, die ihn aber überhaupt er...

Es gibt dieses tolle Buch “Die Rockefellerpapiere/Die Insider”,das  
Gary Allen bereits 1976 geschrieben hat und in dem er die “Strukturen”  
und Hintergründe der NWO beschreibt, welches z.B. auch Alex Jones “auf  
den Trip” gebracht hat.  
Dort entlarvt er den “Council of foreign relations”(CFR) als den  
öffentlichen Arm der Bilderberg Gruppe. Wenn man dann noch weiss, dass  
Joe Biden (Senate Foreign Relations Committee) und Dick  
Cheney(Director,CFR)dort “Funktionäre” sind dann, na ja, ich weiss  
nicht…

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/4 "2018-09-26T13:48:44Z")

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What’s wrong with ‘public arm’ ?  
public wing is one alternative

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/5 "2018-09-26T14:24:59Z")

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Given the context, “public face” would be ‘more English’. Blahblahblah was set up as the public face of the Bilderberg Group.

It’s a matter of collocations, of word pairs which usually go together in specific contexts. In English you can say that an organization is another one’s “political arm” or “public face”, but the cross-combinations are a lot less common.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/6 "2018-09-26T15:10:28Z")

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I got you. One thing to note is that in this case “entlarven” doesn’t mean he set up Blahblahblah as a public face of the Bilderberg Group, more like he exposed it as such.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/7 "2018-09-26T16:29:36Z")

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Danke. Me bad, should have looked up the verb.

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**Author:** ![davidmich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@davidmich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidmich)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-translation-of-the-german-phrase-offentlicher-arm-public-face-of/821947/8 "2018-09-27T02:41:48Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> Danke. Me bad, should have looked up the verb.

Thanks Nava and DPRK. Very helpful.