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...weeds. But it is home to Veronika Eichmann, widow of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week, just a year after her husband's death, home she came with son Hassi, 7, from an unnamed hiding place in Western Germany. Barricaded once more behind the white-painted walls, Frau Eichmann and family (her son Dieter, his wife and child) remain in isolation, screaming at intruders, "Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?" Their nearest neighbors merely shrug. "Eichmann built them a prison," says one, "and now they have to live...
...film does have its silly moments. There is a man eager to see a newborn son who mutters a last message in a companion's arms. There is also a captive German officer who wistfully admits that he misses his frau and kinder. But despite a liberal complement of platitudes, The Four Days of Naples never really becomes embarrassing. And it does invent many lively and believable ways to thwart Germans--probably the critical test of a movie that never even presumes to squeeze clumsy lessons out of the bestiality...
...blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
...first step was to organize the Sonnenberg-Wiesbaden exchange program for third-to sixth-graders. The pilot project, while slow going at first, soon got into high gear. "After one year of this kind of direct instruction, the children lose all shyness," beams one of the participating Germans, Frau Viehweger. "They speak-naturally not quite correctly, but without inhibition...
...denounced him and spent most of the war in a Nazi internment camp; he died in 1951. Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock and 12% of August Thyssen stock; her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, holds another 39% of Thyssen stock. The countess thus would presumably inherit a majority share of both...