Word: vistula
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Wilhelm's relations with Harden were highly interesting on three occasions: 1) The day when the Emperor had Harden clapped into a damp fortress at the mouth of the Vistula for lèse majesté. 2) The night on which the Imperial Chancellor secretly conveyed a large sum of money to release Prisoner Harden. 3) The day of Wilhelm's abdication, when he declared: "Now Germany must send Harden to Versailles. He is my greatest enemy, and has been so from the beginning; but Germany has no better peace-maker...