# What word are these Nazis screaming at me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642 "2003-05-26T22:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/1 "2003-05-26T22:14:23Z")
…not in real life, of course. 'Sorry to disappoint. 😃 I’ve been playing the game “Medal of Honor: Allied Assault” for the past month or so, and occasionally, in a melee, the German soldiers start yelling something that sounds like “Loose! Loose!” I _think_ it’s directed at “me,” the player. But I’m not sure. If it’s indeed directed towards the player, my first WAG is that it’s german for “Drop the gun!” But hell, it could be “Die scum!” or “Medic!” for all I know. Can anyone help? Ranchoth (And for that matter, what the deuce is “Alleman Froyer!” supposed to mean?) ---
**Author:** ![punkkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@punkkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/punkkid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/2 "2003-05-26T22:27:48Z")
The “loose, loose” is probably “los, los!” which means “run, run!” or hurry. ---
**Author:** ![zwede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zwede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwede)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/3 "2003-05-26T22:54:27Z")
[QUOTE(And for that matter, what the deuce is “Alleman Froyer!” supposed to mean?)[/QUOTE] Sounds like “Alleman feuer” [sp?], or “everyone open fire”. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/4 "2003-05-28T18:30:06Z")
It would be “Alle männer, feuer!”, which would mean “All men, fire!” It’s textbookish. ---
**Author:** ![rodent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@rodent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rodent)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/5 "2003-05-28T19:57:44Z")
OK, since you brought it up, what did the Nazi soldiers say when you killed them in the old Wolfenstien game. It sounded to me like: “Mein Laymen” I asked a German friend and he did not know what it was (although he only heard my interpretation, not the actual game sound) ---
**Author:** ![Hobie\_the\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@Hobie\_the\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hobie_the_One)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/6 "2003-05-28T20:06:06Z")
**rodent** that was “Mein Lieben” or “my life” in German. I always thought it sounded a little corny. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/7 "2003-05-28T20:19:25Z")
Doesn’t “lieben” mean something like “loved?” Not that that makes much more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/8 "2003-05-28T20:22:34Z")
Yes, but it’s not pronounced in a way that sounds like “laymen.” The context is probably wrong, too. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/9 "2003-05-28T20:26:19Z")
“Mein Leben” (LAY-ben) would be “My Life”. Lieben (LEE-ben) is love. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/10 "2003-05-28T22:43:45Z")
Are you sure they’re not saying, ‘Raus! Raus!’ which means ‘hurry,’ or ‘quickly’? cheers, Ms Boods ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/11 "2003-05-28T23:58:46Z")
Hey! How about all the other stuff they said in [Wolfenstein?](http://www.geocities.com/triple_life_mws/wolf3d.html) No, wait a minute, given the above, I found [this translation](http://www.mac-archive.com/wolfenstein/talk.html). I figured they were saying “mein leiben”, which is close. But what sounded like “kerfuffle” musta been “Schutzstaffel”, translated as “SS (Bodyguard)”. He’s calling in more troops! It all makes sense now. 😃 (P.S. - download [here](http://www.angelfire.com/games2/wolfenstein3D/wolfenstein_for_free.html) ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/12 "2003-05-29T01:34:59Z")
Sorry about the hijack but since we are on the subject: What about the Wolfenstein guys they put in the DOOM and DOOM ][ games. When they first spot you a deeper voice says what sounds to me like “SHOOSUNTHN” (shoot something?). And when the character goes splat city, it shouts out something that sounds like “VOOSLIG!” any one know? I have wondered this for years. ---
**Author:** ![Hobie\_the\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e99b99/32.png) [@Hobie\_the\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hobie_the_One)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/13 "2003-05-29T13:44:10Z")
**LEBEN** Preview should be my friend.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/14 "2003-05-29T13:56:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rodent \* > \*\*I asked a German friend and he did not know what it was (although he only heard my interpretation, not the actual game sound) \*\* Probably didn’t matter anyway since the Wolfenstein German soldiers had a very heavy American accent and were quite hard to understand even for native speakers. If it wasn’t for my brother’s excellent deduction powers, “Spion!” (Spy!) would have remained a mystery to me forever. About the OP, “Loose, loose” indeed sounds like “Los, los” as **punkkid** said. And it _is_ “Alle Mann, Feuer!” (I don’t know why you don’t use the plural here, maybe you want them to react like one man) ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-word-are-these-nazis-screaming-at-me/177642/15 "2003-05-29T18:07:46Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by zwede \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Sounds like “Alleman feuer” [sp?], or “everyone open fire”. \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Dogface_ > It would be “Alle männer, feuer!”, which would mean “All men, fire!” It’s textbookish.\*\* zwede is closer. “Alle Mann” is age old military language. “Alle Männer” may look correct in theory, but nobody would say so in german. There are pairs of words in german that look identical in the singular, but one of them differentiates in not having a plural. “Zwei Männer” means two male humans. “Zwei Mann” means two soldiers. Or: “Zwei stücke” means two pieces of something (pieces of a broken glass for example), while “zwei Stück” means two items of the same kind (like two tuna sandwiches).