Helga Weyhe, Germany’s oldest bookseller, dies at 98 ...United Arab Emirates

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Berlin: After Helga Weyhe locked up her bookstore in the town of Salzwedel, Germany, each evening, she would make her usual commute - a trudge to the apartment upstairs. She had been making the same trip since World War II, just as her father had before then, and as her grandfather had before him. The H. Weyhe Bookstore is one of the oldest bookstores in Germany. It was founded in 1840, before Germany was a country. Weyhe’s grandfather Heinrich Weyhe bought it 31 years later. It endured through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime. Weyhe took over the store from her father in 1965, four years after East Germany built the Berlin Wall, and guided it through communist rule and reu

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