Word: agnetendorf
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
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