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Post by andhereweare on Feb 3, 2018 1:25:10 GMT
This has intrigued me. In the movie she was left behind, and whether or not she knew what the family was up to is uncertain. Although it would not be out of the realm of possibility that the Nazis would question her about their leaving. In a bunch of FF stories she goes along with them. Thoughts?
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Post by indigoblue on Feb 4, 2018 0:28:51 GMT
Assuming Franz was in cahouts with the Nazis, I would like to think he would vouch for her not knowing anything about their flight to the mountains.
But then was he that decent?
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Post by augiesannie on Feb 4, 2018 15:01:25 GMT
More likely it wouldn't be worth the effort for him to implicate or vouch for her. I think - she'd go to stay with her sister, and suffer through the war, but survive.
I wrote a story once in which M&G came back to Austria after the war and Elsa had disappeared, but I forgot to have them check on Frau Schmidt. Hm, I'll have to think about that one, it's a great question!
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Post by indigoblue on Feb 4, 2018 23:53:48 GMT
Do you think Georg would have told her, or implied to her what they were doing?
Or would it have been safer for her, and them, for her not to have known?
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Post by lemacd on Feb 7, 2018 6:46:06 GMT
I think there is a line when they are trying to sneak the car off the estate where the children ask what Franz and Frau Schmidt will say and Maria says that they will be able to answer truthfully that they didn't know anything. Something like that, so no, they didn't tell either of them what they were going to do. Unfortunately for them, Franz was ordered to keep an eye on them and figured out what they were up to and then called in Zeller and his goons.
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Post by indigoblue on Sept 13, 2023 23:26:45 GMT
It would have been very distressing for FS to find out when they had gone - presumably they didn't tell her. She probably saw all those kids growing up - maybe also the Captain!
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Post by reverendcaptain on Sept 14, 2023 19:25:47 GMT
She was probably devastated. She had lived at the villa for so long, so even though she was an employee, they all had to seem like family to her. Plus, the household was finally stable. The captain was over his grief, the baroness was out of the picture, Maria was the new lady of the house - things were set up to go forward happily. Then, she wakes up to find them all gone and the Nazis knocking on the door asking questions. I would image that they made ugly threats and ultimatums, but soon realized that she knew nothing and let her go. There is no way Franz helped anyone but himself.
I wonder if she suspected, given the political climate and her understanding of Georg's position, that they would make a run for it. Maybe she was not as surprised at all? It seems odd to me that they could have all made it out of the house undetected by her. Maybe she intentionally stayed out the way, knowing that they would want to put her in a position where she hadn't helped them escape. But that she knew, just as Franz did, what was going on.
Is it too sappy of me to want her to make her way to America and live with the Von Trapps in Vermont?
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Post by indigoblue on Oct 31, 2023 0:36:58 GMT
I rather think that Frau Schmidt is too - well - Austrian to leave her homeland. I rather think she went to live with her sister in the mountains afterwards.
I seem to remember that Rolf described Georg as 'so Austrian' too, but he is a better-travelled person, having been in the Navy.
I understand that Austria is quite conservative socially and politically, so moving to the US would involve a big upheaval for many reasons.
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