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petrea_mitchellAllEars.net is a great resource for information on Walt Disney World, fronted by a page full of clickbaity blog posts. One of today's listicles is about the gigantic mosaic in the breezeway at Cinderella's Castle in the Magic Kingdom. #4 on the list is:
WHOA HEY BACK UP THERE "master-interrogator"???
No, it's not a case of someone doing a quick Wikipedia search and coming up with a different guy with the same name. Here's an LA Times article about him. Scharff was an art student before the war, was drafted into the Luftwaffe and then assigned to be an interrogator, where he became renowned for extracting information through building a rapport with POWs rather than bullying and torturing them.
After the war, he wound up giving lectures to the Air Force about nonviolent interrogation techniques, then eventually immigrated to the US, became a mosaic artist, and at some point got a commission from Disney for an installation at Disney World.
It was made by Hans Scharff, a German mosaic artist. He took Dorothea's dreamy design and made it reality! Prior to being an artist, he was a master-interrogator during World War II. Both Redmond and Scharff are credited on the mosaic.
WHOA HEY BACK UP THERE "master-interrogator"???
No, it's not a case of someone doing a quick Wikipedia search and coming up with a different guy with the same name. Here's an LA Times article about him. Scharff was an art student before the war, was drafted into the Luftwaffe and then assigned to be an interrogator, where he became renowned for extracting information through building a rapport with POWs rather than bullying and torturing them.
After the war, he wound up giving lectures to the Air Force about nonviolent interrogation techniques, then eventually immigrated to the US, became a mosaic artist, and at some point got a commission from Disney for an installation at Disney World.
