Marita Lorenz was born on August 18, 1939 in Germany at the onset of WW2 to an American mother and German sea captain (making her a perfect candidate for the birthday bingo square). As a child Marita and her mother were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her mother, already on watch lists for being American, was accused of helping the incarcerated Jews. After her release from the camp and a sexual assault by a neighbor Marita became a withdrawn, troubled child who stopped going to […]
