Families pinned photos to the noticeboards of railway stations in the hope that a returning comrade might bring them news of their loved ones. Clergymen published prayers for the missing in their parish newsletters and in September 1947 the Protestant Inner Mission dedicated a week of prayer to them. The services were to take Jeremiah, 29:14 as their first reading. Its last verse ran: ‘I will be found by you’, declares the Lord, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you’, declares the Lord. ‘And I will bring you
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