Scheveningen is a beach on the North Sea, close to Den Haag.
The beach part must be to the right or left of this pier.
Part of the beach there is a nude beach, so that part was off-limits to us missionaries. The Germans would use that beach, since they have no beach of their own in that area. The Germans know that many of the Dutch people still have bad feelings about the war, World War II, and the Nazis, so the Germans try to speak Dutch so they would be more accepted. However, the Dutch people know all about this, and this beach, Scheveningen, is a word that the Germans cannot pronounce. It is a very gutteral word that the Dutch love, pronounced something like Sggaveningen, with the gg sound coming from down deep in your throat, but the Germans pronounce it like Sheveningen.
The Dutch then know that these tourists are really German.
Dad/Lamar served his mission 1957-1960
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