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Bad is the German for bath. Stuttgart is a stud farm, Württemberg is a hill — and the town this whole series is named after is a spa, whose sulfur springs were found in 1595 and whose Wunderbad a pastor named Blumhardt bought in 1852 so that people could come and stay and be prayed for.
This episode is the story of the house: the wonder-bath and its two generations of Blumhardts; the olive grove outside Athens that gave the Evangelical Academy its name; Bishop Wurm's journey through the ruins in June 1945, three brothers named Müller in the car, and the academy Wurm and Eberhard Müller…
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