Evening star., 1961-08-21
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
The Ave Mario
In Juzz

III S0GE
BERLIN, Germany.-The
young lady was too pretty.
The face was serene in
nocence; the two-piece suit
matched the blue eyes; the
blond hair was in a French
twist; the skin was pale
custard. Her name is Frieda
and she is typical of the
81 million who live in the
western sector of this city
waiting for the Russians to
make their moves.
SHE HAS LOST her values.
She is 81, has been married
twice and divorced twice.
She sat at a window table at
the roof garden Of the Berlin
Hilton slipping a Tom Collins
and watching the dancers.
She speaks a precise, brittle
brand of English with little
phrases like how-do-you-
sa ay-thees-in-Americanische
in front.
Kelly talked about F'rieda's
marriages and Frieda
shrugged, lowered her eyes,
and said it was her fault.
Somezing wrong, she said,
without saying what. MAY
be I expeck too much, yah?"
I looked out the window at
the bright night lights relow.
This is a city in stage one
of besiegement. Still, the
night life is binding.
The shops on the Kur-
furstendam brighten the dark
sky with neon lights. A half
mile on the other side of the
Berlin Hilton, the lights die.
This is Berlin East. Over a
million people live there
among the rubble of apart
ment houses which were
bombed and burned over 16
years ago. Small green ferns
grow out of the altars of
churches open to the night
sky.
The Berliners like to
pretend that they have a
tomorrow-we-die complex.
This is untrue. It is a today
we-live complex, and they live
to the hilt. They eat we'll
and heavily; they buy electric
washers and the best tele-
vision sets; they build huge
modern apartments; they go
to the st. PAUL. Club to
drink and see the strip
teasers; they make jokes
about the Russians and the
Americans.
Frieda does not work. She
has a little boy, an apart
ment, and a car which looks
like a big-eyed beetle. Sne
worries about a revival Of
Nazism. Her little brother
Manfred is one. Most of the
neo-NaziS are teen-age boys
and young neuroticS. None of
them remember Adolf Hitler
and the war.
In school, the teachers
spend much time on ancient
history and medieval history.
Until two years ago, they
taught nothing of modern
German history. At home,
the parents who voted Hitler
into power said nothing of
the Nazi Party and nothing
about the war. They felt
guilty.
The boys got their knowl-
edge of Hitler from German
postwar motion pictures.
They heard him, on the
screen, shout that Germany
would conquer the world and
they heard him promise ter
rible vengeance on all who
opposed his will. The young
sters stood in the darkened
theaterS and cheered. Hit
Ter was a great mani" they
said.
They formed little Nazi
clubs and held meetings and
painted swastikaS on bill
boards. Suddenly the Bonn
government noticed these
things, and quickly began to
fight the young tide,
In schools, the tragedy of
Nazism is now taught. The
guilt is placed solely on Hit
Ter. All others are excused be-
cause they were under the
domination of the guilty one.
This confuses the Friedas
and the Manfreds of West
Germany. The young have no
sense Of values; they know
only to take. They float in a
materialistic world of pleas
ant sensations. They rip
through the big autobahnS at