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The building's limestone façade has a bust of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the German founder of the Turner Movement, and letters "FFST," which stand for the German words "Frisch, Fromm, Stark & Treu," and represents the basic principles of the turner movement: "Healthy, Upright, Strong & True."
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