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Martha Young-Scholten...
Firm Stand. Catholic authorities stood firm. Said Father Dominic Scholten, head of the bishops' education department: "The time has come for the church to stand up and be counted." Added Sister Bernadette, headmistress of the newly integrated St. Catherine's Convent in the Transvaal town of Florida: "There are three criteria that we apply when enrolling pupils, and race is not one of them. We accept anyone who has correct moral character, intellectual ability and can pay our fees" (about $400 a year). A newspaper survey showed that 85% of those white parents who were questioned supported desegregation...
...Reason: the six happened to be children of the consul from Transkei, one of the black "homelands" to which South Africa granted independence but which no other nation recognizes. Foreign black diplomats are exempted from South Africa's racial system, and in view of such exemptions, argues Father Scholten, "we should now allow our own black people...
...hero of Gregor's book is Ernst Scholten, a schoolboy who cares little about the war and less about politics. A passionate reader of Karl May's cowboy-and-Indian stories,* Scholten imagines himself as the dauntless Indian chief, Winnetou. Even though German adults - both soldiers and civilians-urge the uneasy boys to desert, they blindly follow Scholten's lead. "You can do as you please," he says. "I am staying. Winnetou will hold the fort." The boys' resolution is strengthened when a passing general cannot resist spouting nonsense: he urges them to defend the bridge...
Twelve hours later, only Scholten and one other teen-ager are left alive. When a truckload of German troops arrives, the boys think they are replacements to take over their position. Discovering that the unit is really a demolition team come to blow up the bridge, Scholten cries hysterically: "Why did we have to defend it, then? Five are lying over there who've fought for this bridge." Author Gregor's final irony: after driving the demolition squad away from "our" bridge, Scholten is killed by a fellow German...
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