Word: erna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...INNOCENT EMPRESS-Erna Barschak-Duffon...
Defendants: Hans and Erna Haupt, Walter and Lucille Froehling, Otto and Kate Wergin. The men were stolid, pale, the women red-eyed from weeping, as the indictment against them was read: that they had "adhered to" an enemy of the U.S. by aiding Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs captured last summer by the FBI, tried by military court (six, including Haupt, later were executed...
...show that Herbert Haupt (son of Hans and Erna, nephew of Walter and Lucille) was an enemy, U.S. attorneys summoned to the witness stand Ernest Peter Burger, one of the two saboteurs who tattled on the others to save their own skins. To Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem...
...tragedy of Erna Schmidt is the tragedy of all decent men and women, "the little people," who are blamed for the maniacal deeds of their rulers. The girls, in their patriotic fervor, try to focus all their unresolved thinking, all their unresolved thinking, all their hatred of Germany, upon her, trying to create of her an image of the Nazi regime...
...acting is compelling--no finer cast could have been assembled, particularly in the choice of the six girls, all of whom excel in the shrewdly and sympathetically drawn characters. The play, though, belongs to Grete Mosheim. To the role of Erna, her first appearance on the American stage, she brings a magnificent technique, an exciting individuality, a warmth and depth unexcelled, and gives the most merorable performance of the year...