Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Wuppertal in the Rhineland, Mrs. Schumacher was raised in Freiburg near the Swiss border. An accomplished pianist, she studied at the Conservatory in Munich. In 1935, she decided that "Mr. Hitler and I did't agree too well" and joined the thousands of Germans who waited in neighboring countries for the fall of a regime few believed could last. Mrs. Schumacher spent three years in Italy, largely in Naples and in Sicily, but in 1938, the Anschluss and the hungry eye turned toward Czechoslovakia brought complete disillusionment. Recognizing that Hitler clearly would last and that war would follow...
...would-be Hitler (Claus Clausen) is a pianist-entertainer in a postwar Munich nightclub where Pier Angeli is employed as a hostess. When a U.S. Army Air Force captain (Gene Kelly) becomes romantically involved with Pier, he soon finds that he is also deeply involved in a political underground movement...
...Devil Makes Three has any number of chases by automobile, motorcycle and on foot. It also has some effective-on-the-spot scenes filmed along the Munich-Salzburg Autobahn and at Hitler's bombed-out Adlerhorst at Berchtesgaden. Gene Kelly, without his dancing shoes, turns out to be a relaxed, likable actor, and wide-eyed Pier Angeli brings an appealing, girlish charm to the role of the Fraulein. But The Devil Makes Three makes little more than another run-of-the-movie-mill thriller out of its theme...
...Munich, a West German denazification court decided that Margarete Himmler, 58, widow of the infamous Gestapo chief, was guilty of being a Nazi offender, sentenced her to 30 days "special" labor and ordered that all her personal property acquired after marriage be confiscated. Himmler's property was confiscated...
...emergency, Berliners (88% Protestant) rallied to help their fellow Christians. Berlin's famed Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius threw open the Marienkirche, the principal Protestant church in the city, to the Catholic meetings. He took Munich's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Wendel as a guest in his own home. At open-air Masses in the Walbühne. Catholics worshiped before the same cross used by Protestants at last year's Evangelical Kirchentag. At Berlin's Funkturm fairgrounds, Protestant Pastor Lothar Kreyssing addressed the packed Catholic gathering and got the most thunderous applause...