Word: nordheimer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Shortly after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War (1871), 17-year-old Charles Leopold Hartmann left his native village of Nordheim, Alsace, and emigrated to the U. S. Of French sympathies, he did not wish to live in Alsace under German rule. At Hollister and Bakersfield, Calif, his affairs prospered so that he could make a trip back to his home town and see if he could find anyone who remembered him. Last month he set foot in Nordheim for the first time in 58 years, but everyone seemed to know who he was. Everybody he went to call...
...clear proof that Charles Hartmann of Hollister, Calif, had never left the U. S. since his entrance in 1872, had never been a French citizen. Obviously some rogue had taken advantage of his absence to use his name. Elaborately the tribunal apologized. The accused was free to return to Nordheim where, however, far fewer remembered Hartmann the Californian, than Hartmann...
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