Marianne Hofmann was born May 28th,1917, in Berlin Germany during the height of World War l. Perhaps her birth at such a tumultuous time, prior to the new birth of Berlin played an important role in shaping her equally tumultuous personality. Marianne struggled through World War ll finding employment for the German military, then an internment in a Russian prison camp. After escaping from that camp, she gathered up her daughter and moved to Fuessen, Germany, as far South as she could. Finding employment for the American Army as a secretary during the day and waitressing and managing a famous...