Word: schirrmann
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...
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