The trip home began with the two enlisted men being taken from Mannheim Air Base to Heidelberg, Germany, where they boarded a U.S. military plane for a flight to Budapest, Hungary.

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During the years I was studying theology with the faculties of the great German universities in Heidelberg and in Bonn, I made many distinguished friends there, great men of learning who, today, simply because they are Germans of Jewish extraction, have been dismissed from long-held scholarly positions and are being ruthlessly persecuted by the Nazi hoodlums who have taken command of their homeland.

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