Word: 550th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the G.I.s took over Germany, they closed Heidelberg, Germany's oldest and most famed university. It was a sorry parody of itself-and had been for ten years. When, in 1936, educators from 32 nations went to Germany to pay their respects on Heidelberg's 550th birthday, they found themselves officiating at a wake. The Student Prince atmosphere of Heidelberg, the beer mugs, the sabers and the sashes were gone. SS uniforms and swastika flags had displaced them...