Word: petershausen
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...Mary Booth near Ostend, in the first stage of their sweep through the Low Countries and France in May 1940. They thought the granddaughter of the Salvation Army's founder was a spy; the Qestapo grilled her for 24 hours. Then she was sent to Germany, to the Petershausen Camp for Civilian Internees in a large public school at Konstanz, the south German city on the shores of the Boden...
Mary Booth, still in her Salvation Army uniform, had no easy time at Petershausen. When she arrived, together with her short, plump secretary, the Gestapo men said disgustedly: "Ach, the Salvation Army's coming!" To them she was a constant source of ridicule; to her fellow prisoners-Poles, Frenchmen, a few Englishwomen and some British sailors-she was a source of fascination. She never took her Army bonnet off in public. In the thrice-daily exercise periods (two hours in the morning, four in the afternoon, one after supper) she strode determinedly around the schoolyard, her secretary always three...
...Negotiations for her exchange began almost immediately after her capture. Petershausen camp gossip was that the Germans were willing to trade her for seven German women interned in England...
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