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...days later, the bishop rowed to the island. "It's hard to keep things straight," said the old ladies. "We pump all day, and the leaves still lie on the ground." "You need a man," said the bishop, "a [French] prisoner to come and work." "Herr Bishop!" screeched the old ladies, "a Frenchman-with a young girl on the island?" But a few days later young Paul Laprade arrived. "Permit me, Madame," he said, bowing to each surprised old lady and gently helping her onto the seesaw. "Love is stronger than death, and that is what will save...
...prosper without joining the Party. So the U.S. Military Government installed him as Aachen's occupation Bürgermeister. Fifty-seven of the first 300 city functionaries chosen by him had been Nazi Party members. U.S. officers, weeding out 27 of them, had to agree with Herr Oppenhof that it was almost impossible to run the town efficiently without experienced Nazis...
...Harbach, a U.S. military court tried Karl Packbier and his friend, Robert Hogen, for hiding three German soldiers on Helen's farm. On trial, Herr Hogen and Herr Packbier turned out to be middleaged, prosperous, respectable-and innocent. Had not the Allies' broadcasters instructed Germans to give every aid to German deserters? Acquitted, Herr Hogen and Herr Packbier bowed their thanks to the court, walked out with dignity...
Evidence was indisputable. The soldiers had been captured in Herr Hogen's farm buildings. Herr Hogen's stolid wife admitted giving them food and clothing. One of the soldiers was Packbier's brother. With a rush of guttural oratory (which had to be laboriously translated), Hogen and Packbier made their clever defense...
They were both anti-Nazis-Herr Hogen a fanatical one who had had to be cautioned by his Catholic pastor to keep his mouth shut. At the time they were hiding the soldiers, Horbach was a frontline town not yet solidly occupied by Allied troops. General Eisenhower's proclamations about turning in German soldiers had just been tacked up. Hogen and Packbier had not had a chance to read them before they were arrested...