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Though allowed to see his family, Hess adamantly refuses to do so. He does, however, write a permitted 1,300 words a month to his family. "It is beneath our dignity to meet," he explained by letter to Wife Ilse, 66, who runs a small Gasthaus in Bavaria's Allgäu Alps. Belatedly, Hess has become a freedom lover. "I would never again put a bird in a cage," he wrote to Ilse. "Only now do I fully understand why the Chinese and Japanese, when fate is especially kind to them, go to the market, buy a bird...
Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...
...through the Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked so childlike, he decided, was because she was always with "de liddle vuns." The reason he spoke English...
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