German history is marked by charismatic leaders who wielded personal power for malevolent ends, she says.
All post-war German history has been about doing right by European countries that once suffered under the Nazi jackboot.
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The original function of the building had been forgotten for centuries, but it is now fascinatingly restored and offers a tragic insight into the darker side of German history.
The fact is that in Germany, there is universal agreement that the truth, or honne, about the Holocaust is that it was an evil blot in German history never to be forgotten.
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But there has also been no officially sanctioned equivalent of the Franco-German history textbook commission that, soon after 1945, assembled scholars to try to agree on a common account of the two countries' bitter history.
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Another design, from Daniel Liebeskind, features a 141-metre (154-yard) long broken wall which directs the eyes of visitors towards the Tiergarten park and a monument to Goethe, so inviting them to reflect on the highs and lows of German history.
West German social history is full of narratives about German suffering at the hands of the Nazis and the allied forces.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
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It was only the third time in German post-war history that a presidential election has gone to a third round.
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As German governments have faced history bravely with contrite determination, Germany has won forgiveness and respect from the victimised countries in Europe...
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The name Hess is well established in German 20th-century history.
But as has often happened in the long history of the Franco-German relationship, compromise emerged.
"Anyone who was in Istanbul knows they saw one of the greatest matches in European Cup history, " said the German.
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He withdrew to a house in the south to write art history, dismissed anti-German activists with lectures about realism (not a quality that loomed large during any other period of his life) and maintained friendly relations with a ferocious collaborationist, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.
Montblanc, the German company with its own 106-year history as a manufacturer of luxury writing instruments, not only bought into the legacy of Minvera, but in some cases expanded upon it.
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According to Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association, the irregularities are now "history" because supervision has been tightened.
But analysts believe Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande will find some common ground, pointing to the long history of compromise in the Franco-German relationship, often between leaders of differing political colors.
He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).
Armin Heinen, professor of history at Aachen's university, says modern German identity was built on reconciliation with the French Erbfeind, or hereditary enemy.
Dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, the book draws on examples from history, of Alexander the Great and of the German city states, to teach its readers some eternal lessons.
In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.
Recent history indicates it would be foolhardy to bank the acquiescence of German parliamentarians in advance of the fact.
The first is that the history of the European Union suggests that a powerful Franco-German axis is hard to resist for ever.
And if we look at the names that loom large in American history, Frederick Steuben, but many leading leaders of the German -- of the American business community, Guggenheim, Steinway, Strauss, Singer -- all of these German names.
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