Intro to Germany

[wterrell]

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Would you gentlemen entertain us with your first introductions to Germany and things German?

My introduction to German was by a little old lady in her 80's named Mrs. Anrich. She was my 6th grade teacher in a small rural school in Oklahoma. She was born in Imperial Germany and her speech was strongly accented but grammatically correct. Her manners were strictly proper. I suppose she was all of 5 ft. tall and wore the dress of the turn of the century and her hair was always in a bun.

Mrs. Anrich lived in town in a small house that had a yard that was totally composed of flowers. No lawn, just flower-beds, enclosed with a white picket fence. She was the founder of the town garden club and we would always see her during the summer in the community flower plots along side the road.

My respect for Imperial Germany began with her, for I had a lot of respect for her and her personal (dignified) demeanor. I was fortunate that the engineering of the Luger lived up to my expectations of what Imperial Germany would produce.