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Word: neuenahr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, his butcher shop on Düsseldorf's Rethelstrasse, manned by his two sons and his bleached-blonde wife, Anna, had been grossing $2,000 a week. But as the trial progressed, a painfully familiar story emerged: in 1951 on a jaunt to nearby Bad Neuenahr Casino, Roden caught the roulette bug, began to drop as much as $1,200 at a session. The following year, when tax inspectors handed him a bill for nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Roden, unable to pay, remembered the dying days of World War II, when he kept his retreating Wehrmacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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