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Plauen

American  
[plou-uhn] / ˈplaʊ ən /

noun

  1. a city in E Germany.


Plauen British  
/ ˈplauən /

noun

  1. a city in E central Germany, in Saxony: textile centre. Pop: 70 070 (2003 est)

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The psychedelic “ghost train” mural on the town hall of Plauen in Saxony, by Karl-Heinz Adler and Friedrich Kracht, will be the next project, starting in 2021.

From The Guardian • Nov. 3, 2019

My father described traveling to Plauen on April 26 to interrogate Reichsbank officials.

From Washington Post

It was a Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the F�hrer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Plauen Reichsbank also contained 17 bags of U.S. gold dollars, 1 million Swiss gold francs, 151,560 Norwegian gold kroner, 22 bags of silver German coins, and 98,450 Dutch gold guilders.

From Washington Post

The planes were always bound for someplace else— Leipzig, Chemnitz, Plauen, places like that.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut