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...When I was ten I was told that my beloved brother Lech was killed in the Warsaw uprising for a falsehood. When I was ten I ceased to believe in the hitherto sacred word Fatherland. When I was 15 I ceased to believe in God. God had proved to be an ally of the murderers of Lech. For long hours I knelt in a dark, empty church. The day finally came when the cross became to me only a piece of wood...
...Hildana Road, Cleveland; Shaker Heights High, Shaker Heights. Kjellgren, Bengt Hugo of 2423 Eaton Road, Cleveland; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson. Layzer, Robert Bertrand of 2851 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights; Cleveland Heights High. Reinhardt, Nicholas of RR No. 1, Raglund Road, Newtown; Terrace Park High, Terrace Park. Senger, Harry Lech, Jr. of 316 Dixmyth Street, Cincinnati; Walnut Hills High, Cincinnati. Turner, Richard Parks of 256 Aberdeen Avenue, Dayton; Oakwood High, Dayton...
Reverent gayety at Augsburg, Bavarian city on the River Lech, last week celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. Martin Luther, who all his adult life suffered with nervous headaches and sometimes with hallucinations, in 1517 posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. They were an effective protest against "abuses" of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther as a heretic. Emperor Charles V outlawed him. Had he been arrested and convicted for his heresies, he would have been burned at the stake. German princelings, many of their subjects...
...Augsburg town, on the river Lech...
...with knights and chaplains he left the Lech...