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Word: meisterbrief (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a war Peter's lift was a mixture of shoe and boot making and visits to nearby Roseheim where he courted his wife, alias Mama, alias The Boss. (She denies the last titles). In 1921 Peter was awarded his Meisterbrief and became one of the youngest master shoemakers in Bavaria. But bringing up two children in inflation-ridden Germany was too much of a job on shoemaker's money, so Peter decided, in 1924, to emigrate to the United States where one of his sisters lived...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Boots, Beer Make Limmer Tradition | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

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