Word: hessen
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Trott decided at first to pursue a legal career, and his work in German courts was another source of misgivings among his friends. During his time in a provincial court in 1934, the Manchester Guardian published a series of articles detailing the persecution of Jews in Trott's native Hessen. Trott wrote an angry letter to the Guardian, denying that the courts were anti-Jewish. Although his assertions proceeded from a sincere attempt to explain that not all Germans were anti-Semitic, many in England interpreted the letter as a sign of sympathy for the Nazis' aims...