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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Germans cannot turn backs on Nazi past, Merkel says

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany cannot simply draw a line under its Nazi past and must remain sensitive to the damage it caused to other countries including Greece, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Speaking in her weekly podcast, Merkel said she was looking forward to a May 10 memorial in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "There's no drawing a line under the history," Merkel said, dismissing a yearning that many post-war generations of Germans harbour. "We can see that in the Greece debate and in other European countries.


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