The Telegram and the $1.9 Million

Relief is a Latin word about weight: relevare, to lift again. Before the Missouri Synod sent Germany a single theologian, it sent $1.9 million worth of milk, clothing, and books — and a telegram its editors printed exactly as the wire delivered it, slip of the key and all. The relief years, 1945–1947, and the first public notice of Bad Boll.

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