Word: ehrenschutzh
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...next twelve years Adenauer was a virtual prisoner in his home at Rhöndorf. "I became a very good gardener," he says. Twice the Gestapo arrested him, but he was treated as an Ehrenschutzhäftling (honorary prisoner) and released unharmed. But Adenauer heard and saw enough of Gestapo brutality to feel bitterly ashamed of his countrymen...
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