I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" was a hit single in 1967 composed by British songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. It was a novelty record, performed mostly by whistling. The name Whistling Jack Smith, credited on the most commercially successful recording, was a play on the name of the baritone singer of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Whispering Jack Smith. The tune was written by Greenaway and Cook and was originally titled "Too Much Birdseed". It was recorded as a single for Deram Records by record producer Noel Walker, using studio musicians together with the
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen in 1983 in Berlin. Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist who was active in the country's Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II. Elfriede Nebgen was born in Hildesheim, Germany, and was initially educated there and in Lausanne, Switzerland. She trained to be a teacher at a school run by the Ursulines in Duderstadt. Her first teaching job was at a school for Polish girls in Poznan. During World War I, she