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Oberammergau
     
Oberammergau
a town in Bavaria, southern Germany, where a passion play (=a play telling the story of Jesus' suffering and death) has been performed by the people of the town every ten years since 1634, as a way of thanking God for saving them from the plague (=a very infectious disease that killed large numbers of people)
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