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Word: rbel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight was a shocker in itself, but the real shocker came with identification. The pathetic little creature was Farmer Steenbock's own granddaughter, eight-year-old Bärbel Süfke, youngest child of his twice-married, 40-year-old daughter Rosa. On questioning, Rosa Süfke claimed that she had hid the child soon after birth because she feared it was an idiot and health officials might take it away. Grandfather Steenbock insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoner in the Attic | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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