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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Colonel Booth's Prison Years | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Colonel Booth's Prison Years | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Colonel Booth's Prison Years | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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