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I don't know what the lady had in mind-----
You spoke about her - not I.
I just remembered---it was not
HILDEGARD that she called her ----it was BRUNHILDA (spelling?)
I have never known either a Hildegard or a brunhilda in the USA.
So I guess you also don't know anything about Jesse Owens and Luz Long. A good story in a bad time with no happy end. Their stories are a good key for the realities of Germany and the USA in those days.
But okay - I will check out your information for you: wife from Richard Wagner Jr. ... one moment ... Hmm: I guess you are speaking about Siegfried Wagner ... his wife was Winifred Marjorie Williams (*1897, Hastings, England - +1980, Überlingen, Germany).
There are blonds and blue eyes in my family too I think the CORONET
of BLOND braids is was the issue with the german-jew lady -----sheeesh ---
she was about 14 when shipped out of Germany----she was traumatized----
I think
I guess she was happy that a kind of cross under a ship screwed her to the other side of the atlantic ocean.
I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!
It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.
I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song.