Burgdorf
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A city in Emmental, Bern canton, Switzerland.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
After stopping, Doose and Maisel walked away from the car, leaving Rommel with Burgdorf.
Burgdorf had brought a cyanide capsule.
Burgdorf informed him of the charges and offered him a choice: he could either face the People's Court—which would have been tantamount to a death sentence—or choose a quiet suicide.
Five minutes later Burgdorf gestured to the two men to return to the car, and Doose noticed that Rommel was slumped over, having taken the cyanide.
Together with the family, he moved to Burgdorf in 1845 where he started school.
The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (