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...decade ago, Anja Rosmus was just another bright 20-year-old student in the town of Passau, where Hitler had lived and Eichmann was married. Anja was a good Catholic with no political ax to lodge in the town's guilty past. Then she decided to write an essay about Passau's resistance to the Nazis -- and was surprised to find the gentry amassed against her. Librarians blocked her research; the limit of confidentiality on documents was suspiciously extended from 30 years to 50. When her phone wasn't jangling with anonymous insults ("Jewish whore!"), neo-Nazi louts were tossing...
Verhoeven could have made a straightforward documentary on the subject; in fact he did, as a companion piece to The Nasty Girl. But in this movie he dresses fact up as fable. Passau becomes Pfilzing, and Anja Rosmus is now Sonja Rosenberger, a precocious sprite full of life and full of herself. The movie takes its spirit from Sonja; it is bold, nettlesome and great...
Most moved on quickly, eager to complete the 250-mile trek across Austria to their new homeland. Cries of "Free at last!" filled the air as newcomers leaped from their vehicles to kiss the West German asphalt. In Passau, volunteers passed out candy and fruit to sleepy-eyed children, who must have thought they had awakened in the midst of a carnival. "I came for her," said a young father, hoisting his daughter into his arms. "She deserves more than a life in East Germany." The first signs were promising. Because Bonn acknowledges only one German citizenship, the refugees were...
...other time since World War II. Indeed, the waning of Germany's postwar angst fits perfectly with Kohl's folksy, optimistic style. "I'm convinced that we can solve any problems with reason, courage and patience," he told 5,000 beer- drinking backers at a stop in Passau. "All we need is the inner strength to decide that's what we want...
...responses. But then few convicts serving life sentences are two years old; fewer still have four legs. Bubu is, in short, no common or garden-variety lawbreaker. A green-eyed tomcat, he was recently found guilty of trespassing on a neighbor's property in the Bavarian town of Passau and sentenced to confinement on his own side of the fence for life. In addition, the local court threatened Bubu's owners with a fine of up to $200,000 if their charge strays again. As hundreds protested, even the judge was moved to concede that "from the human...