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As they said in Germany, "Ein volk, ein fuhrer, ein vaterland."
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Back in their own native vaterland they were always used for medium-sized game.
The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909
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Welanchtons vaterland Wer war de Kocherthal Wer Harschias Wer
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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If he was for a time estranged from his parents, and in particular from his mother, it was less through any fault of his, or of theirs ” I repeat it ” than through the intrigues of Bismarck, and of the latter's friends within and without the imperial household, who fondly imagined that they were serving the “vaterland” by keeping the parents and their son estranged from one another.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900
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Lions’ Den,” “Twelve short Sermons,” &c. Moral allegories suited to every-day life wooed their attention in his “Christian Patience,” where the whole human family is depicted as a solitary in a ship on a stormy sea, with the world, death, and the devil, as adversaries to oppose his safe entry into his port, “das vaterland,” but who is mercifully guarded by the Most High.
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