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To: PMS Witch who wrote (579)	3/1/2001 10:38:18 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 6901

My husband's mother was from Germany - his father was in the army during the Occupation and met her while they were both working at AFN Munich. He was an announcer and she was a secretary. They got married and lived here in the states, and when her mother got old she moved in with them and took care of my husband and his brother. So his first language was German, too, even though he was born here. I don't know how to spell Strewelpeter, but he is a boogie man they threaten children with to make them behave. He has scissor hands and they tell the children that the Strewelpeter will cut off their thumbs if they are not good! My impression is that there is some implication of castration, too! Old fashioned Germans were very strict with their children! My husband at one and the same time thinks his parents were too strict and that I am not strict enough.