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If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can ded...

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Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your d...

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Peace must be more than the absence of war.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others....

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We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as peo...

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Helmut Kohl

Former Chancellor of Germany

Born: 1930-04-03

Died: N/A

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German statesman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany, 1982–1990; and of reunified Germany, 1990–1998) and as chairman of the CDU from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union.More