Word: jugenddorf
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Christliches Jugenddorf Adelheide-the Christian Youth Village of Adelheide-is the name lettered on the big roadside sign outside the cluster of 20-odd two-story buildings near Bremen, in Germany's British zone. Adelheide was built to be one of the biggest Luftwaffe bases in northern Germany. At war's end it became first a D.P. camp, then (with the addition of barbed wire) an internment center for Gestapo-men and Nazis awaiting trial...
...Nervous, dark-haired Irma was working in a textile mill in the Russian zone when the millowners and technicians suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
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