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More than most Germans, lively, blue-eyed Inge Scholl has reason to remember the Nazis with horror. Her brother 'Hans and her sister Sophie, medical students at the University of Munich, had joined the underground against Hitler, were arrested by the Gestapo and publicly beheaded. Inge vowed to carry on their work. In the autumn of 1945, under Allied occupation, she found...
...Inge Scholl was the natural leader of such anti-Nazi elements as existed in her native Ulm. Her ideological friends suggested that she establish a Volkshoch-schule (university extension) to help rehabilitate the bewildered, shaken populace and teach them a new political creed. She jumped at the chance. "Brother Hans," she said, "used to say that the great problem of Germany's moral reconstruction could be solved only through education. Unless our people understand the full meaning of democracy, there is no hope...
Last week offers of technical help and money were coming to Educator Scholl from all over Europe. She had a big new project in mind: a daytime college for 150 students to study journalism, radio, city planning, etc. "Our aim," she explained, "is to send experts into society with a democratically oriented background. German specialists in the past have been too buried in their work to care who or what they were doing it for." The experimental college would be called "The Brother and Sister Scholl University...
...satire is itself twofold, kidding Texas by way of a national picture magazine that decides to boom a small-time Texas politician (Kenny Delmar) for the presidency. The politician is meanwhile running for re-election as state senator against a young veteran (Danny Scholl). The plot is thickened by stirring in the old candidate's daughter (Mary Hatcher) to be the young candidate's sweetheart...
...love interest is supplied by Mary Hatcher as Hominy's daughter, and Danny School as a returned Air Force veteran. (One of Mr. Scholl's songs, in which he reminisces of his flying experiences, is called, believe it or not, "The Big Movie Show in the Sky." Typical line: "Its a funny feeling when you see St. Peter smile/And he says he's had a movie camera on you all the while.") The love situation is complicated when some of the disgruntled veterans put Easy Jones (Mr. Scholl) up to run against Hominy. However, as dishonest as Hominy...