Germany awoke to such problems a decade or more before Mr Sarrazin's screed appeared.

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His biggest asset is that he is new, personable, and unencumbered by Mr Sarrazin's enmities.

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The debate provoked by Mr Sarrazin has unleashed a blast of cultural warfare.

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On November 27th, for example, Mr Sarrazin told journalists that all tax skeletons were now out of the cupboard.

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According to sources close to Mr Sarrazin, he declined, choosing to concentrate his energies on managing Kleinwort Benson instead.

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Thilo Sarrazin, a director of Germany's central bank, faced calls for his resignation after he published a controversial book on immigration.

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At the time of the acquisition, Mr Sarrazin and his side-kicks were desperate to reassure Kleinwort that heavy Teutonic boots would not be trampling all over their precious merchant bank.

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Allianz put the deal off pending Mr Sarrazin's departure.

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Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.

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