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Word: bernd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blond, blue-eyed Bernd Schmidt was captured at the age of 18. That was three years ago, when he and some other West German teen-agers went to the Leipzig Sports Festival in Communist East Germany. One day, passing a stadium exit, Bernd Schmidt was caught in a throng of girls who came pouring from the field after a gymnastic display. Schmidt recalls: "Some were carrying their hoops high over their heads, others were rolling them. Suddenly, someone dropped a hoop over me. Everyone laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...Bernd Schmidt had been captured by Maria Hoelscher, an elfin girl with saucer-like brown eyes and a ponytail. He had to return to his home near Mannheim and his job as an apprentice lathe operator, but as soon as he saved enough money for them to marry, Maria planned to leave East Germany and join him. Then the Communists built the Wall, dividing the lovers as well as Germany. Last week Bernd Schmidt went again to Leipzig. He met Maria in a Weinstube and they tried to think of a way to smuggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Prenatal Pose. ''Could I fit into a suitcase?" she asked. Looking at her trim 5-ft., 100-lb. figure, Bernd gulped his drink and said they could try. If caught, Maria thought it meant three years in jail for her, ten for Bernd. "They'd accuse you of being a Western slave trader." They paid $6.50 for a brown plasterboard suitcase that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Man with a Suitcase | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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