Word: shatterhand
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...Genghis Khan. There goes the youthful, effervescent Adolf trotting off to school at the local Benedictine Abbey at Lambach and passing by an old abbot's pet insignia, the swastika.* Here he comes, voraciously reading the latest sauerkraut western by Bavarian Author Karl May, whose genocidal hero Old Shatterhand was busy exterminating the insidious "Ogellelah" Indians. From Payne's researches in the New York Public Library come telling excerpts from the unpublished memoirs of Hitler's sister-in-law, Bridget Elizabeth Hitler, especially tantalizing glimpses of the impoverished, slothful future Führer in his early...
...thousand Germans were in their places in Bad Segeberg's outdoor amphitheater last week to see Old Shatterhand make his grand appearance. Shatterhand slithered down a sheer rock wall and, armed only with moral courage, set out to defeat Brave Buffalo, chief of the Shoshone. In the end, it was no surprise that Old Shatterhand had triumphed again, and no surprise that the leader of the bad guys fell into a geyser and was parboiled...
...Shatterhand, lean and heroic, is a German version of a U.S. cowboy who has made the Old West familiar country to every German child since Karl May invented him a century ago. In a long and fanciful lifetime (1842-1912), May was more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy...
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