European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Right Passau Germany where Elizabeth Rosmus got a Little cooperation in researching the nazi Era. Below right Lena Stolze plays the Quot Nasty girl Quot in the film. Film tells a by Charles Champlin los Angeles times Michael Verhoeven s film the Nasty girls Germany s entry in the foreign language category in this year s Academy awards. It is an occasionally surrealistic and often very funny account of a teen age Fraulein s distinctly unfunny and dangerous attempts to investigate the nazi years in her  discoveries a of those who collaborated in the persecuting of the jews and those who kept silent and of the Young thugs who 50 years later still think Hitler was on the right track a were grim and the More incongruous because they Are made by so cheerful sexy and unlikely a researcher. The film s sometimes bizarre tone was evidently Verhoeven s Way of pointing up the incongruity. \ events have been fictionalized in some degree. The real town Passau has become  the girl Sonja played by Lena Stolze was really Anja Rosmus and he essence of the Story is quite True including the revelations the death threats a mugging and her reputation As a Nasty a a or troublesome girl. Rosmus now .50 and a divorced Mother of two,.was in the United states in december sibling some of the 15 former jewish residents of Passau who by mail helped her launch her reseat cd into the Tow n s Pash Quot Many of them Quot Rosmus said during a luncheon interview Quot ares homesick but they re still afraid to come  it is not surprising she adds. The 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler was celebrated locally and there were cookies in the shape of swastikas cakes with Hitler s likeness on them. The town of 20,000 is in Bavaria near the Austro czech Border and both. Hitler and Adolf Eichman lived there at various times and Heinrich Himmler s father taught in a local High school. Rosmus began her quest As the film says in 1980 As an essay on the town s history to be entered in a National contest. The Odd silences she met led her to place an and in the German jewish newspaper Quot auf Bau Quot which is published in new York seeking former jewish residents of Passau now living in the United states. She had 15 replies from Maine to san Francisco and began corresponding with the writers getting leads  to interview and specific questions to ask. As she read through the Back files of the local newspaper she realized that their had been what she tads a Brown area a a whole seize so of events never reported at the Lime. One clue Zouhat was going on  that said such and such a store was no longer owned by  v essay no  if nobody remembers these things it s like the murders being done a second  a. A. Interviews with her in the Media about her Battles to gain Access to City archives for example made her notorious and led to her being characterized As Quot the Nasty  she published her first Book a Case of no one had Wetti n of h ii inv no Watiers no is stance Mei persecution Passau 7933-39, in is t. She has since published n i two More exodus 8 stripes Magazine january 17, 1991