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I went to the article you posted from Wikipedia about Angela Hitler. I jumped down a rabbit hole that Q did not even point out, but I found some interesting (to me, at least) stuff. Probably howlingly irrelevant.

I noticed that there was a reference to her having been involved in protecting a Jewish school of some kind:

“It says she became manager of Mensa Academia Judaica, a boarding house for Jewish students, where she once defended those in her care against anti-Semitic rioters.”

Here is a link to another quick summary of Angela Hitler with the same reference to the Mensa Academia Judaica:
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/angela-hitler.html

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I did a search on “Mensa” which many know, is the “smart people” organization. I concluded it did not have relevance (probably ) for our purposes because it was founded in 1946. The use of the word “Mensa” in their context is supposedly meaning “Table” from Latin. Nevertheless, I’m more than a little suspicious about any international organization formed at about that time. (UN, World Council of Churches, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensa_International
After looking at that article, there was something I found disturbing about their emblem shown there. They claim 134,000 members world wide.

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From an online dictionary, I found that:
The word means “table”, refectory, a meal/food on the table, and rarely it can refer to a Christian Altar.
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I wondered why a German Jewish school would name itself with the Latin word for “table” - and had poor results at finding anything which I thought was useful. I did find a link to a current Mensa Academia. Perhaps our German Scholars can make something of it,

https://www.facebook.com/MensaAcademia
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I did run across what, to me, were some more curious references:

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Mensa.htm
This link shows a stellar constellation which is seen AT THE SOUTH POLE . I believe I’ve seen discussion upthread regarding Antarctica.
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I found this one a little strange. Shows a picture of a small child in white satin and net ballet kind of outfit
https://independent.academia.edu/mendemensa
mende mensa - Academia.edu
mende mensa studies HIV/AIDS, Clinical Pharmacy, and Impact of Pharmaceutical Care in HIV/AIDS Patients.

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Link to a list of Mensa International members - FWIW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mensans

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Also for WIW:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/11/mensas-brainiacs-offer-to-host-trump-tillerson-iq-faceoff/?utm_term=.f707191fbe59

[During the posting/preview process it shows the post as an all-across-the-screen format requiring scrolling to read. Don’t know what activated that.]