Word: altena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...