Word: frau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resistance in Berlin. In The Dancing Bear, a warmhearted but coolheaded account of how Berlin rose from its ashes, Frances Faviell, wife of a British occupation officer, describes how the cold war tore one German family apart. The author met her heroine, Frau Maria Altmann, when the old German lady, who was pushing a handcart piled high with furniture, collapsed in the street. By her own admission, Author Faviell had gone to Germany "wanting vengeance," but in Frau Altmann's lined face she saw a quiet human courage that made vengeance seem irrelevant. For the next three years-through...
When Ursula and her G.I. lover got married and sailed away, Frau Altmann refused to go with them, because "I belong in Berlin." By her stubborn, unheroic courage, this old lady reduced the cold war to the commonplace. But in 1949 the best of the Altmanns died of lung cancer...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...
...Frau Lucie Maria Rommel, whose late swashbuckling husband, Germany's Field Marshal Erwin ("Desert Fox") Rommel, tried mightily to invade Egypt in 1942, invaded Egypt without firing a shot. In Cairo to help ballyhoo the world premiere of a new German movie That Was Our Rommel, Frau Lucie sat beside Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib at the showing, was also greeted cordially by Premier Gamal Nasser. Later she placed wreaths on war memorials to both Allied and Axis soldiers at El Alamein, where Rommel lost the crucial battle of the North African campaign...
...Parisians," he says, "I sounded like a Saigonese houseboy." M. Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese, and in another two years he was in Bonn, where Frau Anne Marie von Dobschiitz began explaining the intricacies of German syntax...