Word: allmendingen
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...last August, old passions having subsided and new political considerations having arisen, Manstein was released on medical parole for an operation on his cataracts, and was allowed afterward to return to Schloss Freyberg, his sister's 60-room castle in the Swabian village of Allmendingen...
There last week went an envelope marked "On Her Majesty's Service." Inside, a brief note said: "You are notified a Remission Board Order has been signed today, terminating your sentence of imprisonment." On hearing the news, Allmendingen's Bu germeister promptly closed the village school and marched the children, town councilors and teachers up to the castle for an official "Welcome Home" for the old (65) soldier. As a band oompahed Im Schdnsten Wiesengrnmde (In the Beautiful Meadow), Manstein, sallow and strained, took a bouquet of lilacs and tulips from the kiddies and said: "We hope...
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