Word: ehegesetzbuch
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...married before ending up convicts in our yellow-striped uniforms in work camp. I had studied East German marriage documents with members of the East Berlin Academy of Sciences where I was working on my MIT dissertation, had even poured over the legal text on Marriage Law (Ehegesetzbuch). Elizabeth and I had gone to the socialist marriage bureau in the East, tried to get a proxy marriage in this country, and investigated getting married in the American embassy in Poland and having it validated by East Germany. But the biggest blow came to us when Elizabeth and I visited...
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