Video: 'Telling the German Command to go to Hell! WWII: Hero’s'

(Friday, December 22, 1944, 11:30 a.m. local time; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — U.S. Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe today rejected a German demand for surrender, writing “Nuts!” in his official reply.

Video: 'American Experience - Battle of the Bulge (PBS Documentary)' (Dec. 22, 1944, at 35:50)