GERMANY: Among the Souvenirs
A Munich court ended a three-year legal squabble over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy to buy a café. Bavaria did not say what it planned to do with its inheritance.
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