when Martina was only three years old and that he was living is Switzerland with his sixth wife.
There were three other kids at the pool party that I remember, two girls and a boy. One of the girls would later become my girlfriend.
The boy’s name was Craig Chaffee. He and I went to the same elementary school and played Little League on the same team. We were what I would call friendly competitors in baseball, sports, and with girls. He was a good-looking kid.
During the pool party, I decided that I would like to pursue Marina as my girlfriend. Unfortunately, she liked Craig. I was heartbroken.
But I took my lumps and moved on.
Years later, preparing for this article, I learned about Marina’s father, Hans Habe. He was born in Hungary and was moved by his parents to Vienna. He studied in Germany and returned to Vienna in the 1930’s, around the time that the Nazis were coming to power.
Though initially pro-Nazi, he changed. In Vienna, he wrote a book critical of a German plan to enslave and sell Austrian Jews. He is also credited with discovering the true name of Hitler himself. When Hitler came to power in Austria, he was on Hitler’s radar as an undesirable, so he fled to France. Too late. The Vichy government had taken over. Hans was interned in a camp but was able to escape through Spain and Lisbon and reach the United States.
Once in the United States, in 1942, he was drafted into the US Army. He was sent to Germany to work with the newspapers which would be used during the American occupation of Germany after the war.
In 1948, he married Marina’s mother, Eloise Hardt. Marina was born in 1951. Her parents divorced in 1954.
In addition to his anti-Nazi writings, Hans was also the writer of other books. Her mother was a fairly well known television and movie actress, landing roles on early television sit-coms and in some major movies including Kentucky Fried Movie, Looker, and Winter Kills. She was a very beautiful woman.
Editor’s Office – Monday, 12 noon
“So far so good. But where does the crime come in?”, he asked.
The crime would come in next. It happened approximately four years after my first and only conversation with Marina. The story went on.
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