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Most of the children look upon Adelheide as the next thing to heaven. With almost no urging, they have organized an orchestra, a fortnightly Mimeographed paper, a system of student government. But sometimes there are problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
...city boys are more sophisticated than the rest, but they are also more prone to homesickness and restlessness. Director Loebbert, who trained for the priesthood, relies on such Boys Town institutions as a juvenile supreme court to cope with minor rule breakers...
Lucky Girls. The chief worry of Joint Directors Reich and Loebbert is providing the tough, worldly-wise adolescents who come to Adelheide with some skill or trade with which to make their way in postwar Germany. Every week, from 20 to 30 young wanderers turn up there-boys like 17-year-old, shock-haired Karl Waldhauser, who had been drafted to work in a Russian-zone uranium mine. After three days on a pneumatic drill, Karl escaped and crossed the border at night. Says he: "I never get homesick. Maybe that's because my father and mother are dead...
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