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...Passion zahlt's" (The Passion will pay for it), people like to say in Oberammergau. And, indeed, the famous Oberammergau Passion Play, first performed in the picture-postcard Bavarian hamlet back in 1634, has kept the local economy humming for much of the 20th century. It is a six-hour production, put on for a four-month run every ten years with a cast of 800. A quarter of the town (pop. 4,800) takes part, working as stagehands, orchestra members, singing away in the huge chorus, or milling about as Roman soldiers or members of Jewish crowds. Many...
Meanwhile, the exposure of Eichmann's co-workers continues. In Cologne, three former Gestapo agents-one the mayor of a Bavarian town-were convicted of deporting 73,000 French Jews and Communists to Nazi concentration camps. The longest sentence given was for twelve years. During the 18-week trial, which was attended by dozens of angry survivors of Auschwitz and Treblinka, the defendants denied knowing at the time the real purpose of the death camps. They were imprisoned last week while a higher court heard their appeals...
Residents of the Bavarian town of Naila, near the landing site, offered food, money, clothes, apartments and jobs...
Because he keeps the murder rate down, Archer keeps receiving such indulgences from Kellerman, a deceptively jolly Bavarian who affects the tweedy foibles of an English squire. Inevitably, it is bruited about that the Superintendent is Gestapo; he narrowly escapes two assassination attempts by the Resistance...
Many of the old graduates were also happy to have the friendly German on hand. The entire tenth reunion class, according to the Herald, the Class of 1924, showed up dressed in Bavarian costume, right down to the Tyrolean hats. The Boston Herald reported that "because the doctor had traveled 3,000 miles there was a Harvard version of the goose step, executed with as much snap as unsteady feet could muster ....An Americanized approximation of the Nazi salute replaced the hand shake...