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Anna Federner, this good Anna, was of solid lower middle-class south german stock.
When she was seventeen years old she went to service in a bourgeois family, in the large city near her native town, but she did not stay there long. One day her mistress offered her maid -- that was Anna -- to a friend, to see her home. Anna felt herself to be a servant, not a maid, and so she promptly left the place.