Decide Between Boll and Sasse

Decide is a Latin word about cutting: decidere, to cut off. In February 1948 a cable from Stuttgart demanded a cut — Bad Boll, or Hermann Sasse in Saint Louis. Nobody in Saint Louis wanted to make it, and no document records that anyone did. The file simply goes cold, and that is the story.

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