Word: treten
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...every village in the land opened their mouths and sang the old Dutch thanksgiving hymn. Dankgebet, which begins ''God make us free." Written by Adrian Valerius in 1597, the most popular German translation is that of Josef Weyl. Forty million Nazi voices boomed out the words: "Wir treten zum Beten vor Gott dem Gerechten" ("We step up before God the Just to Pray...
...boomed its dull, monotonous roar, the crowd became bareheaded, two minutes' silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold?not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...
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