European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Choir Page Iii j and South chairs currently on tour Are in Switzerland and when Schnit looks Back to his quarter1 Century with the interrupted for period by the nazism he looks Back on a tradition almost As old As the discovery of the new six years after Columbus voyage of discovery austrian emperor Maximilian i founded a choir of 12 boys to sing at the Homburg his private under the benign sponsorship of the hapsburgs and the Austro hungarian the choir and its tradition flourished the dissolution of the monarchy at the end of world War the choir then was Dis Schnitt entered the picture in he entered the Priesthood in the Early part of the but had served mostly in the economic Section of the archbishops office in in 1923 he was made pastor of the Wiener Hof Sanger Knaben with the there was a choir of 12 Schnitt expanded the carefully trained their voices and arranged for the boys to sing at various social and religious their Success was Schnitt was soon afterwards Given permission to move the youths into a part of the former of the the rebirth choir was and Schnitt envisioned the possibilities of a new and better boys Schnitt sold a hotel at which he had inherited from his and invested the about in the thereafter the group rapidly expanded and in 1928 started to since that the choir has appeared on every continent and possibly every major country expect China and a father Schnitt enlarging the group to 50 Schnitt bought the luxurious Castle Wilhelminn atop a on the outskirts of Vien in j was the Best we Ever had a big swimming Pool and to 1038 world politics were again undoing of the with the Shotgun Union of Austria and the rant to its Sto Miest Days two Days after of farce Schnitt was imprisoned by the nazis a Young member of the Vienna boys choir turns his appealing profile to the camera during the shooting of a motion picture for use on the Sandman a television show in the film is directed by a former choir the choir made its Tele vision debut last Christmas Over a Chain of 47 video one of its groups is always on tour in foreign countries made the choir part of the Hitler youth and used it As a propaganda in april with russian and Ger Man troops battling for Schnitt drafted plans to the Only a few Days after be he tacked up posters on  buildings calling for in atiyi4 boys the hundreds who volunteered were selected and they became the nucleus of the present Day those who served m the Hitler youth Schnitt sums up his i like i he the i like put them together and you have makings of a Man l members of the choir classes at Augarten their Home id the soviet sector of a addition to special classes in music and voice Trainr a class of boy singers studies a familiar problem in plane choir master drills a group of boys in one of the daily singing Mem for the purity and Range of their childish must leave the when voices begin to often go on to careers As a familiar dormitory most choir member ii keep scrap Boot Here i is shown in the Blue dormitory comparing entries in their individual by clippings and boys usually remain in the choir Only about Sis the Sta Sand Stulpi