Bright-eyed with hope, the Westenkirchners trooped last week into the Chancellery at Berlin. Surely all Germany, and especially Gentle Adolf knew who they were?
They waited a whole hour. True, Carpenter Ignatz Westenkirchner during the War fought as a private in the squad of onetime Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler. True, when Ignatz and his family were stranded in Reading, Pa. the Chancellor replied to their plea for help by sending enough money to put Ignatz, Ignatz Jr., Frau Westenkirchner and their apple-cheeked daughters aboard the S. S. Hamburg (third class) for Germany (TIME, Jan....
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