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Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

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4.“Youth means being grippedby the infinite”<strong>Anni</strong> left Thale as soon as the academic year ended. Afterparticipating in a Youth Movement “singing course” shetraveled to Berlin to attend an international women’sconvention on social issues. Her next destination was thelittle village of Gettenbach, where she had been assignedto student-teach at a children’s convalescent home.Germany’s cities were still struggling to recover fromthe First World War, and many children who sufferedfrom poor nutrition and other diseases of poverty wereprescribed cure treatments in country institutions. <strong>The</strong>one in Gettenbach was picturesquely situated in a largemanor house. <strong>Anni</strong>’s weekly letters home continuedthroughout the weeks she spent there.Gettenbach, July 5, 1929Dearest Mama and Hilde,Your loving parcel arrived most punctually, thank you57

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