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Word: segeberg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...anonymous letter-writer-presumably a refugee who had wandered upstairs-recently wrote health officials in nearby Bad Segeberg, urging them in horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak...

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

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