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I see someone answered it, but is the spelling correct or a typo perhaps?

I got it right. No idea if the answer itself is correct, but what I tried is spelled exactly as you'd expect it to be spelled.
Let me amend that-- if it's misspelled, then I accidentally misspelled it the exact same way and didn't notice!

As there hasn't been a W(est) Germany since the Berlin Wall came down I'm wondering if we're looking for a word that was valid THEN rather than now.

you may be right on the W Germany, I got this from a pretty dated book. think old austrian, hungarian director or sgt snorkel's dog

WhizBang wrote:or sgt snorkel's dog

In other words, "Otto."

Thanks, Sonja.