European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A sheim easter Bunny. One thousand people met the train in Mannheim Mannheim s mayor Fritz Cahn Ganier greets Sinsheim my Captain Charles n. Mathews and landsat Ludwig Bernheim who brought the train to Mannheim. In when the Sim Beimer Osterhaus panted into the Mannheim Bohnhof one hour late one morning during holy week it spilled out boy scouts and school children who had come from the Belsen River county to deliver sixty tons of potatoes apples and eggs gifts of the children of Sinsheim and Sinsheim county to the children of Mannheim. It was the Wiir Temberg Baden version of the u. S. Friendship train which a week before had Cut across Germany from Bremen to Munich. The donors landsat Ludwig Bernheim of Sinsheim explained had conceived the idea because they wanted to Lead the Way in showing that germans can be Friendly  fifty three towns in the county which is relatively Rich in agricultural products started collections which were to go to nearby Industrial War damaged Mannheim. Town criers publicized the program teachers preachers and Burge meisters endorsed the plan. Spearhead of the food collecting drive was the Sinsheim wild boar pathfinders scout Troup worked with the Wiir Temberg Baden Reform school and orphanage to Contact Farmers solicit contributions haul foodstuffs to the rail Yards. Sinsheimer of pre boy scout age too Young to help with the actual collecting helped decorate the  cars. They directed with Whitewash smeared hands older workers who painted bulging easter eggs bunnies and Spring Flowers on the sides of the train. Sides Manheim. I. A i " Sinsheim girls dressed As easier bunnies hopped off Neckar Valley Friendship train at Mannheim amid shouts and laughter from waiting children parents. Weekend april. 3,-ims waiting Mannheim children boy scouts and  welcomed the festooned train carrying their easter present with their accordian band