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>       [...]  There are two points, however, that
> 	have always puzzled me:
> 		(a): How was von Trapp a navy captain in a
> 			land-locked country?
> 		(b): How could the family escape the Nazi's
> 			at the end by crossing the mountains?
> 			Once they crossed the border there
> 			they'd be in Germany.

This doesn't really belong here but here goes.

(a) Von Trapp was an Austrian noble not a navy captain.  His commission
    in the navy was a 'gift' of the NAZI government after the take-over
    of Austria.  (Actually, I think Von Trapp did have some naval training
    with the Germans during WWI.  Anyway, the navy he was in was the German
    navy.)

(b) The Von Trapp estate was near the border with Switzerland, Their walk
    over the mountains brought them into eastern Switzerland.  I think the
    movie (and the original Broadway book for that matter) simplified
    the details of the escape enormously.  There is (or was) a book out
    which describes the history of the Von Trapp family in more detail
    (I've never read it, but a girl I once dated had - which is where
    I got this scant ammount of information).

J. Giles