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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Today crossword two europeans views by Al Reavis staff writer it want unusual that Valentin Senger served in the German army during world War except that he is in Good Fortune brought most of sengers family through the dark years of the nazi regime without hiding or fleeing the a retired radio was a member of a Well known Frankfurt family Active in communist Valentin Senger the family first bit of Luck there would be Many before the War ended occurred when a police officer told sengers Mother he had changed the family religion from mosaic to without in the City other such fortunate incidents Senger not the least of which involved the discovery of unexpected allies in the family neighbourhood in the Middle of because of their heritage sengers parents had had to flee stains regime in Russia the sengers were Able to pass themselves off to the nazis As germans from the Volga Region of Russia who belonged to an obscure protestant religious sect the ruse was so successful that Senger and his both were drafted into the German Senger said he and his brother often dreamed of How the War would liberating them from the Ever present threat of discovery and extinction at the hands of the the the fantasy would Rush out of their House As their liberators marched Down the they would Rush out and we Are we Are the foreign soldiers would look at the sengers and what do you free who Are you and the sengers would we Are the perplexed soldiers would Are what we Are jews youll have to say that the soldiers would we Are jews louder the fantasy wed cup our hands around our Mouths like megaphones and shout in All directions until we became we Are jews we Are jews we Are saved and Alex and i would dance in the Street until we fell Over in it was far from the reality of How the War would end for Alex Senger died in a German army unit on the russian Senger had deserted the German army shortly before the end of the War and was hiding in a Hunting Lodge not far from for the first americans Soldier he Senger was just another German they asked me if we had anything to drink or eat in the i said no because the women industrialists wives who were hiding there to avoid Allied bombs told me there want anything they had and the americans found wine and Cognac and beat me badly for my it was quite understandable under the when Senger told his the american officer he confided to turned out to be jewish after i proved it and he spread my he  do enough for Senger published his Story in 1978 in the Book 12 Kaiser of As the american edition is but perhaps the English edition title is More accurate the invisible Karl Jung by de Reavis staff writer Germany Karl jungs Home is a that where he was when world War ii ended in his Castle on the i was a student in Frankfurt and got involved in the jazz scene Jung i had been a member of Hans Bluet hers jazz club since joined the hot club combo in but in nazi even the jazz scene was not without its because of its Blac american jazz was deemed decadent and and playing or listening to the music could result in severe during the third jazz fans the swing youth were considered the next thing to bolsheviks and Jung Jung there were jazz clubs All Over the such As the Rosita bar in Berlin and the cafe Regina and cafe Schumann in i would go there and Jam with every we had signals worked out so that if anyone who even looked like Gestapo came wed switch to something we were allowed to in the authorities realized that they haunt checked up on me to see if i was fit for military they had the wrong Frankfurt address and had to get in touch with me through my who wrote them my at the recruiting office they saw by my fathers Letterhead that we made wine and the official there asked me if it were possible to get a few i but was there anything he might be Able to do for to make it he got 50 bottles of wine and i was deferred for another we went through the same procedure the next tune and then the War was after Frankfurt was devastated by bombing in Jung lived in the Castle with his taking care of the vineyards with six forced labourers who had been sent from the French prisoners War my parents and 12yearold brother had moved away into the i put All the Castle furniture in the cellar and moved with my aunt into the medieval Tower because we Felt safer on March the Hindenburg Bridge near Rue Neshiem was blown up by the fleeing German two Days later the americans reached the nearby town of one Day before the americans marched into a Policman came to the House while we were eating dinner and said that All Able bodied men Between the Ages of 17 and 70 were to report to the City Square to be mustered and March to join a staging area for the last big Battle against the i looked at him and what shall i do in needed Here in the he looked Back at me and i dont think ill reach All the Able bodied men i then decided to hide out i the Tower until the americans they were there the next when the americans one of the French prisoners of an English told the americans that Jung was no nazi and had treated them like human the americans accepted the Frenchman the americans soon discovered that Jung was a jazz musician and had the hot club combo playing for them every night in the no club they installed in the Uxa Nurm mow Pokryw coup it 50mecfhi5 Burrt bios chkki7 by Eugene Sheffer across 1 voting group 5 time of life 8 tree trunk 12 reckless 13 insane 14 at an end 15 fictional dog 16 English poet 18 English poet 20 Assis Tants 21 audience 22 in music 23 English poet 26 italian poet 30 summer time in 31 potato Chip breaker 32 Swiss River 33 american poet 36 italian poet 38 Conger 39 egyptian god 40 Singer Jones 43 English poet 47 american poet 49 anti toxins 50 biblical Weed 51 Beaver edifice 52 Emerald Isle 53 macaws 54 american humorist 55 word with heat or letter Down 1 Bikini tops 2 whip 3 Bone form 4 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