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Beate Uhse is the grandmother of safe sex in Europe, having opened her first sex shop in the northwestern town of Flensburg in 1962. At 79, she still heads the company's board. Unlike those of Ann Summers, only 30% of Beate Uhse sales are to women. "We are working on new concepts to bring more women into the shops, like including more lingerie," explains Ulrich Hulle, chief financial officer...
What's unusual about this tableau, however, is that the Wilhelmis are German. Home for this white couple and their American-born, black children is Flensburg, a city north of Hamburg and an ocean's divide from U.S. soil. Had the Wilhelmis been Americans from another U.S. state, they could not have removed the children from Pennsylvania without complying first with the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. That means a review of their paperwork in both Pennsylvania and their home state, a process that typically takes up to two weeks. Instead the Wilhelmis had only...
...Rebozo, 68, and Assistant Nick Ruwe at a Paris hotel. But there were side trips to Versailles and Rheims and a two-day stay in the Bordeaux wine country at the château of Friend Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild. Next: Lausanne, Switzerland, and then on to Vienna, Flensburg, West Germany, and Denmark with an entourage of 30 friends and aides...
...interviews with survivors and former officials of Lebensborn. In the film's most poignant se quence, an aged Polish woman pleads for some sign of affection from her daughter, taken as a girl from her by Himmler's men and now, 32 years later, a hausfrau in Flensburg, West Germany. Next on the screen is a lawyer coolly explaining that the daughter considers herself German and has no desire to remember the past...
While Beate's firm makes a few of the items that it sells, most of them come from other manufacturers at home and abroad. From Beate's headquarters in Flensburg, 200 employees (70% of them women) each day mail no fewer than 13,000 orders in anonymous brown wrappers to customers in Germany and other countries. (So far, Beate has not tried to capture a share of the U.S. market.) Her book-of-the-month club has just come out with its second selection, Helga and Bernd Demonstrate 100 Love Positions. The $4.95 book is illustrated with photographs...