Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House on 92nd Street (20th Century-Fox). When a personable, athletic young German-American named William Dietrich (William Eythe) graduated from a midwestern college in the late '303, he was offered an attractive proposition by the Nazis. How would he like to take a tour through Germany, with all expenses paid and perhaps study in a Hamburg university for a while? When Dietrich reported this offer to the FBI, he was told to accept...
...Manhattan, Chappell Music Co. got set to publish C'est Fini as Symphony; song pluggers tried it out for name-band leaders. Husky-throated Marlene Dietrich recorded the French version for Decca. In translation, the French lyrics she sang were...
...Dietrich lived in a small, neat, almost undamaged house. He, his six-year-old sister Heidi and his mother had two rooms; the four others were occupied by a grey, staring-eyed woman of 40-odd with six children, one of whom, a boy of 16, had just returned from a British P.O.W. camp...
...Dietrich didn't like school. "Teacher doesn't know as much as we do. She used to tell us the British and Americans were very bad and the Russians were barbarians. Now she tells us Hitler was barbarian, and the British and Americans are saving us and she doesn't say anything about the Russians at all. We know, don't we [here he appealed to Heidi for support], that's all Quatsch. War is barbarian. People are all the same. What we did to other people they do to us and now everything...
After some persuasion Dietrich agreed to take me to see his school, and we set out one afternoon. It was a good 40-minute walk. Boys went mornings one week and afternoons the next week, alternating with girls. Even with shifts and poor attendance the building was very crowded. Dietrich told me about how a bomb once fell near him when he was going to school. Since then, he said seriously, he never liked to go to school even if the bombings were over...