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Letters Bridge Postwar Hope From Osnabruck to America
Alma Kohl of Osnabruck Germany writes to Miss Esther Landwehr describing family life after World War II. She details bomb damage bread shortages and fuel scarcity and notes her husband’s return from a Russian camp and their children’s lives.
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Esther Landwehr
Papsdorf
Cologne
Rhine
Hitler
Hitlen
Schneider
Eden
World Council of Churches
Geneva
Switzerland
Germany
Osnabruck
Province of Hanover
Miss Landwehr
Russia
Alma Kohl
Meyerhoff
Helmut