For example, upon learning that there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany, General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors.

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Euro zone leader Germany saw its GDP fall by 0.6% from the previous quarter.

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But demand at a sale of 10-year bonds from Germany, the euro zone's safe haven, was surprisingly weak.

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