Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Bavarian booklet originally was intended only for junior bureaucrats who had been on the job for a year or less. (The reason for bypassing more senior bureaucrats, explained a finance ministry official tactfully, is that they "have gained the necessary experience, or if they haven't, they might feel miffed.") But requests for copies of Behörde und Bürger have come in from other governments across West Germany. A first printing of 20,000 brochures sold out; another 10,000 or so are scheduled to be run off this month...
...return when Hammett is finished, and Herzog, that most rug ged of rugged individualists, will make German films wherever he is. Fassbinder, much as he longs to live in Manhattan, cannot escape the destiny that has made him not only German, but a distinct kind of German, the Bavarian. "The new German directors are like airplanes always circling the airport but never landing," says the philosophical Kluge...