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...came next morning; I gave him a chocolate bar and we had a long talk. His name was Dietrich. He was eight. He wore clean but patched clothes, was lean as a wolf and just about as quick. He spent a lot of time around the press camp, particularly in front of the enlisted men's mess, picking up butts. "My mother smokes the long ones and we exchange the others for potatoes," he explained seriously...
...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...
Lastfogel made two trips overseas, found that even entertainment-hungry G.I.s complained when the shows were second-rate. Nobody would object, he found, to more big-name performers, especially if they looked like Marlene Dietrich. Determined to satisfy his audience, Abe went to work on Broadway and Hollywood. By V-E day, when the Army gave him a solid green light for transportation, he had his quota of stars and garters. Ready for action were smash-hit shows, top-bill specialty acts, operatic and concert stars, any and every other kind of talent...