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Short, bald, mild Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, 43, favors another war theater. For eleven years he was headmaster of the American School (for U.S. children) in Berlin. His experiences moved him to write Education for Death, a ghastly, vivid account of Nazi education, which became the movie Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18). He joined station WLW shortly before Alcott...
...night last week Carroll Alcott closed his newscast with the remark: "And now you can listen to Gregor Ziemer, the commentator who looks at the world through a spyglass and the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...After Ziemer's broadcast the pair met in WLW's handsome new studio building and, according to Alcott (Ziemer wouldn't talk), the following dialogue occurred...
...Ziemer: "What do you mean by those remarks...
Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...