Article: GERMAN-AMERICAN IS PROUD OF BOTH ELEMENTS.(News)

Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer

NORTH HILLS - A cold winter fog lifted from the Statue of Liberty nearly five decades ago to greet Hans W. Eberhard, a teen refugee of war-torn Germany.

``It was just a shambles, there was nothing left. We were like cockroaches in or own homeland,'' he recalled. ``We slept in a pigsty, literally.''

Today, the North Hills resident is celebrated as one of the leading advocates for German-American relations - and all things German.

As a founder of the Tricentennial Foundation to commemorate 300 years of German contributions to American life, he convinced then-President Reagan to build a ...

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