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...Kolberg," a surrealistic film directed by Veit Harlan, was intended to give a "shot in the arm" to low German morale, said Senior Lecturer on Social Studies Richard M. Hunt, an expert on the film and culture of Nazi Germany...
...title "Kolberg" refers to a German town that had resisted Napoleon's attack. The filmmakers used the example of the town to try to inspire Germany--then suffering demoralizing losses in World War II--to stand firm against Allied forces...
...arrived from Geneva a fortnight ago. He used the name Peter Scriver and carried British passport number 260896. After checking into the Hotel Mediterrannee in west Beirut, he rented a Volkswagen from the Lenacar agency. At about the same time, a blond, friendly man who called himself Roland Kolberg and carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield, Ltd., a New York producer of cutlery and kitchenware. Nobody at the firm has ever heard...
Some time on Jan. 17, the P L O believes, Penelope met with Scriver and Kolberg and told them what she had observed of Abu Hassan's movements on the Rue Verdun. After that, Scriver apparently drove his rented Volkswagen to a secret garage, equipped it with explosives and detonating devices, then slipped out of Lebanon, possibly on a Middle East Airlines flight to Athens Around 2:30 in the afternoon on Jan 22 someone parked the Volkswagen in the Rue Verdun about 100 yds. from Abu Hassan's apartment. Palestinian investigators speculate that Penelope had been watching...
...dishes with food. The Palestinians believe that she drove to the Christian port of Jounieh and later was spirited out of Lebanon on an Israeli gunboat. Her car, which also had been rented from the Lenacar agency, was still missing at week's end, but police found Kolberg s rented Simca abandoned beside the seashore at Mameltein, five miles from Jounieh. It contained no clues...