Begegnung

Conference is a Latin word about carrying: conferre, to bring things together. The documents that planned Bad Boll kept reaching for a different word — one with "against" hidden inside it. A Stuttgart living room, December 3, 1947; Bishop Meiser's one request; and the printed invitation that promised not a conference but an encounter.

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