Word: ellwagen
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...prisoner of war in Germany, I was put to work in villages near the town of Ellwagen, where a few years earlier the Bishop of Rothenburg had made a resounding sermon denouncing the Nazi regime and philosophy. The Gestapo came at once to arrest the bishop, but he managed to flee to Switzerland. However, his sermon had been printed, and the villagers were keeping copies of it carefully hidden. Some of them showed it to us, warning us "nicht sagen...
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