Word: heimrath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graf's mother, Tessa Heimrath, was born among Catholic Bavarian peasants who all their lives tilled, milked and spun from long before dawn to long after sunset. Like animals, they "observed without surprise or emotion the eternal cycle of budding, maturing, and deteriorating; year in, year out, their eyes and senses noted the uniformity of change." These peasants "always knew the names of the bishop and the ruling Pope, but rarely that of the temporal ruler." With deep misgivings they watched the war against Napoleon III, Bismarck's new Empire, the ascendancy of Protestant Prussia over Catholic Bavaria...
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