A poor but clever traveler finds a way to get the townspeople to share their food with him in this retelling of a classic tale, set in Germany at the end of the Thirty Years War.
Discusses the role of Swiss banks in the financing of German efforts during World War II, arguing that Swiss banks laundered money taken from Holocaust victims and provided loans and ammunition to German forces.
Lost in the forest after the family she works for is killed by robbers, a poor servant girl is befriended by a white dove who provides food, clothing, and shelter but then asks for a favor in return.