Word: frau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Frau Ehrengard Schramm, a German historian, arrived in Greece to write a war history. She wanted to visit Kalavryta, but was warned not to; she went anyway. She met hostility but no harm. "They were simple in their sorrow," she said, "not fanatical. They had no self-pity, but their faces expressed so much sorrow my breath stopped." She talked with one woman whose husband and three sons had been killed. "Her figure," she said, "seemed to have turned to stone...
...Frau Schramm returned to Germany determined to arouse German women to the plight of Kalavryta, and to raise funds to buy machinery for some simple industry. "This is a matter for women," she said. "We must not let it get into the hands of men, who would spoil...
...spite of Frau Schramm-or perhaps because of her-the men of the West German government began to take an interest in Kalavryta. The German who, with his wife beside him, met with the village leaders was Alexander Post, commercial counselor of the German embassy in Athens. Under the reproachful eyes of the black-draped widows, he asked about what might be done as a measure of atonement: some looms, perhaps, to establish a small tapestry-weaving business, with equipment, dyes and technical assistance to come from Germany; 10,000 poplar trees to provide wood for the crates Greece needs...
Rommel got the state funeral he had been promised. Hitler sent a personal message, dripping with crocodile tears, to Frau Rommel: "Accept my sincerest sympathy for the heavy loss you have suffered with the death of your husband...
...Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come back later and repeat the whole noisy performance...