Word: horbach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Military Government court in Belgium last week two German civilians stood face to face with death. Robert Michel Hogen, 47, and Karl Packbier, 37, had harbored three German soldiers and an officer on Herr Hogen's farm, near the German town of Horbach. They had fed them and given them civilian clothes. Theirs was a capital offense...
They were both anti-Nazis-Herr Hogen a fanatical one who had had to be cautioned by his Catholic pastor to keep his mouth shut. At the time they were hiding the soldiers, Horbach was a frontline town not yet solidly occupied by Allied troops. General Eisenhower's proclamations about turning in German soldiers had just been tacked up. Hogen and Packbier had not had a chance to read them before they were arrested...
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