User:Inezaltar/Fritz Czermak

He was a brave mayor of Olmutz, now known as Olomouc, devout Roman Catholic and supporter of German nationalism who helped save a Jewish civil construction engineer who had erected important civil defence works, when the engineer´s Christian wife approachec him for help, he having previously assisted in the release of the civil construction engineer by the Gestapo. He or his neighbour had a garden with enormous pears. His children were expelled after World War II and came to live in Germany, where one of his sons committed suicide, while the other became a prominent judge who in later years no longer answered grateful correspondence from the son of the wife of the civil construction engineer who by then had become blind and physically disabled, and his daughter, Isolde, got married. In her youth she had nearly killed a primary school classmate by accident, allegedly by knocking chestnuts down on her head, and the son of the wife of the civil construction engineer, had chivalrously claimed he had done this (he alleged) her handsome brunette appearance and height was due to South-Eastern Slav origin) and taken corporal punishment in her place. When he visited her decades later in Frankfurt, he brought her orchids, as a formal present, because she was not his favourite, who died in resistance in the Tatra mountains,and she served rum with apfelstrudel, and her husband provided good Swiss cookies for his little daughter who was disturbed by her husband´s black terrier almost as much as her tight pretty shoes. The parlour was hung with cowhide, a present of Isolde´s friends whom she missed, separated from her for years when their parents moved to South America at the end of World War I-