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Deborah Cole

3 years

Like a message in a bottle, a blog post I wrote from Berlin four years ago reached a 97-year-old Jewish woman on the other side of the globe, in Australia. In the middle of the pandemic, we began to share a story that connects us @AFP #memoryculture

The past we step into

Like a message in a bottle, a blog post here, by longtime Berlin correspondent Deborah Cole, reached a 97-year-old Jewish woman on the other side of the globe, in Australia. In the middle of the...

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Deborah Cole

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3 years

Merkel is asked (at a tech conf): Do you use smart technology at home or do you switch on the washing machine yourself? Merkel: My husband does the laundry.

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. @mmeckel : Frau Merkel, nutzen Sie zu Hause smarte Technologie oder stellen Sie Ihre Waschmaschine selber an? Angela Merkel: Das macht mein Mann.

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Berlin will not be outclassed #Aretha h/t @slowberlin

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Come to Hamburg, they said, taste our local delicacies...

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5 years

Yes, Merkel wore her wrap bought in the US 23 years ago to the Salzburger Festspiele for the 4th time and anyone who has a complaint knows exactly where they can file it.

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Despite the rule changes, Angela Merkel for 1 is still wearing her mask in Berlin (post-supermarket here after doing her grocery shopping) 📷 Fabrizio Bensch

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Angela Merkel will include Olaf Scholz in her G20 Rome summit bilaterals including a sit-down with Joe Biden, a "historic" move aimed at paving the way for a smooth transition of power in Berlin, German govt sources say @AFP

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Angela Merkel holds the hand of state leader Malu Dreyer, who lives with MS, to support her as the 2 inspect the damage in the flood-ravaged town of Schuld and speak with rescue workers and residents @AFP @AFPPhoto (Christof Stache)

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After UEFA said Munich cannot light up its match stadium in rainbow colors in support of gay rights, Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt say they'll step in with displays at their biggest arenas

Nach Köln und Frankfurt: Auch Berlin beleuchtet Olympiastadion als Regenbogen

München darf bei der Fußball-EM die Arena nicht einfärben, dafür setzt Berlin ein Zeichen, dank neuer Technik.

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4 years

This 100 yo ad for a Jewish-owned clothing shop forced to close in '38 only recently came to light in Gelsenkirchen, Germany when the building next door was torn down. Debate raging how best to preserve it with construction plans already approved h/t Weiße Rose Gesellschaft

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4 years

It's a time of cheap shots in politics -- I'm only human

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4 years

My dad, who spent every day of the last 5 years opposing Trump in his politically mixed Florida retirement community, was hospitalized Thursday before the election result came through. He's now awake enough for my sister to give him the Biden news & gave her hand a tight squeeze

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3 years

Well done, Berlin. These trash cans popping up at parks allow you to easily donate your deposit bottles to collectors without them having to dig through the garbage

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4 years

Celebrating 10 years to the day that we got married & our fellow Berliners could not have cared less 😂💛 #weilwirdichlieben

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4 years

Dad on German train promised his restless young kids snacks (yep, in the quiet car...) & just pulled this out of his bag. I fear the worst

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4 years

Marlene, the original Antifa

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5 years

Ach, German headlines #Brexit #BrexitMayhem @theresa_may

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7 years

Across Germany today, people are polishing Holocaust memorial plaques in front of victims' last known addresses #Stolpersteine #Kristallnacht

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock accepts carnival season prize and jokes: "I wanted to come as a l/Leopard. But then I was afraid the chancellery would for weeks not grant me permission to travel."

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4 years

2 years ago OTD a press attachée would spill coffee all over my notebook & Adam Driver would spring up to find towels to clean up the mess & I didn't even really mind #CannesMemories

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3 years

Berlin Halloween is *the best* (via a friend's FB) 😅

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4 years

The German papers don't mess around: "This Sunday you will finally understand HEGEL"

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"Ce dimanche, vous allez enfin comprendre Hegel" nous promet le journal.

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2 years

BREAKING: Adidas says it is ending its partnership with Kanye West following his series of anti-Semitic outbursts @AFP

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5 years

2 of these people have 50 million Instagram followers between them. 1 was just happy to be there #Berlinale #Berlinale2019 #GullyBoyinBerlin @aliaa08 @RanveerOfficial

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3 years

Of the 2021 news images that will stick with me, Merkel in hiking boots surveying the damage in the flood-stricken village of Schuld together with state leader Malu Dreyer, who lives with MS, is very high on the list @AFP @AFPPhoto (Christof Stache)

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1 year

With a standing ovation & Beethoven, Berlin pays tribute to Auschwitz survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch for 3 decades of Holocaust education, in a beautiful program by her children Maya & Raphael, who carry her legacy forward @jmberlin

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BREAKING: Munich to deck city in rainbow colours after 'shameful' UEFA decision: mayor @AFP

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After UEFA said Munich cannot light up its match stadium in rainbow colors in support of gay rights, Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt say they'll step in with displays at their biggest arenas

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3 years

Germany's 1st person to be immunized against coronavirus, on the eve of the official start, is 101-year-old Edith Kwoizalla, born around the time of the 3rd wave of the Spanish Flu

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3 years

🎉 Auf Edith Kwoizalla und das Seniorenzentrum Krüger in Halberstadt 🎊 #Impfstart

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5 years

Another choice Merkel quote: "It's no problem at all if a man wears the same dark-blue suit 100 days in a row but if wear the same blazer 4 times in 2 weeks, I get letters in the mail."

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BREAKING: BioNTech-Pfizer say Covid vaccine 100% effective in 12-15 year olds @AFP

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Angela Merkel, in a quiet room Am Kupfergraben right now

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At UN, Merkel met @GretaThunberg , who later gave a blistering take on world leaders' lack of action on climate change

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Begegnung vor den Reden beim @UN #ClimateActionSummit : Kanzlerin #Merkel trifft @GretaThunberg

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4 years

Nearly 60 years since the Élysée Treaty & Germany still hasn't learned croissants

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3 years

By my count Angela Merkel has worked with 4 US presidents, 5 British prime ministers, 4 French presidents and 8 Italian premiers, but only 1 Queen @AFPphoto

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3 years

Who did this, Berlin?

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27 days

Professional news: I've just joined the @guardian as Berlin correspondent. So pleased and proud to work with this illustrious, dedicated team, including new partner-in-crime @connollyberlin

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3 years

If you're new to Berlin: get outside and hold these perfect fall days close, you're going to need them this winter

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Cannes can feel like an old man's game but not if Chloe Sevigny and Selena Gomez have anything to say about it @AFPPhoto #Cannes2019 #TheDeadDontDie

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4 years

Whatever you presume the level of international interest in all aspects of the #GeorgeFloyd story is & what it says about US democracy & the rule of law, multiply it by a factor of 10

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6 years

Berlin today marks the 75th anniversary of the execution of Elise & Otto Hempel who launched an anti-Hitler postcard campaign later immortalized (& fictionalized) by Hans Fallada in the breathtaking Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt fuer sich allein)

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3 years

@DollyParton My dad crisscrossed the Midwest for years in his car selling furniture and listening to Charley Pride. Rest in power

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2 years

Berlin's old Café Moskau 🇺🇦

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17 days

the photographer very much Went There

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Wie passend kann ein Foto?

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4 years

Relieved to see that the new Berlin airport has picked up the proud German tradition of really bad hair salon puns #BER #TXL

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3 years

Hairdressers reopen today in Germany

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4 years

New York City right now

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5 years

Ahead of Boris Johnson meeting Merkel in Berlin, Germany's @taz_news has a simple Brexit solution: "Can't Trump Just Buy England?"

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2 years

Zelensky has invited both Scholz and Steinmeier to Kyiv, sources at the German president's office tell @AFP , hopefully putting this dumbest of diplomatic spats behind us

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10 years

Why Germans don't play Scrabble: http://t.co/YG4RUsKHii

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3 years

We've made this a tradition the last few years & I'd like to continue it: Today is the 83rd anniversary of #Kristallnacht . Send me your polished Stolpersteine memorials from across Europe #9November

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4 years

20 years ago today, Germany's conservative, scandal-plagued CDU jumped over its shadow, as they like to say here, & elected Angela Merkel its new leader. The party, the country & Europe haven't been quite the same since

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7 years

German supermarket removes all 'foreign' products from its shelves for a day to demonstrate against racism.

Sven @[email protected]

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Edeka in Hamburger Hafencity macht Aktion gegen Rassismus. 👍 #saynotoracism

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5 years

In case it's useful, a few points about Ursula von der Leyen as seen from Berlin: - Yes, her defense ministry is seen as scandal-plagued, with major equipment problems & a handful of sleaze allegations.

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3 years

You haven't lived as a reporter in Germany til you've had one of these email addresses dictated to you over the phone or your query won't get answered

Theobald Tiger 📯

@ReklovK

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Wir werden niemals einen Krieg gewinnen!

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This was Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor's last tweet before she died yesterday aged 85 & I can't seem to get it out of my head. She retained a lightness & generosity of spirit in her final years that was utterly disarming & humbling. May her memory be a blessing to all who loved her.

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Can you believe that today I can get chicken McNuggets near Auschwitz? That would have been wonderful 75 years ago. They taste the same in every country and were delicious @McDonalds @TheStoryOfEva @candlesmuseum

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Berlin was liberated from the Nazis 75 years ago today. This new website walks you through that time with extraordinary pictures of Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Alexanderplatz & Sachsenhausen concentration camp layered on top of contemporary images

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3 years

BREAKING: Blinken says US has 'no better friend' than Germany @AFP

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"I deeply regret that President Trump has not conceded his defeat, since November and again yesterday," Merkel said. "Doubts about the election outcome were stoked and created the atmosphere that made the events of last night possible."

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4 years

Do follow this account doing extraordinary, innovative archival work to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive as the last survivors leave us #memoryculture

Auschwitz Memorial

@AuschwitzMuseum

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We once again wish to ask all of you for your support. Please, help @Auschwitzmuseum reach 1 million followers for #Auschwitz75 on Jan 27, 2020. RT, spread the word, let @Twitter community know about our account where every day we educate about the history of #Auschwitz .

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3 years

No this, *THIS* is the very best one

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3 years

The new Bernie meme is the gift that keeps on giving...

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8 years

"Bernie Sanders is from Brooklyn, I gotta vote for Bernie." Spike Lee on @SenSanders at #Berlinale

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6 years

Find a man who doesn't look at you the way Wolfgang Schaeuble looks at Horst Seehofer #GroKo

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2 years

@_RichardHall Absolutely. Followed by Angela Merkel, Pet Detective (Georg Wendt)

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Berlin's Brandenburg Gate lit up in the French colors in honor of Paris victims

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9 years

Hundreds gathered in silence at Pariser Platz (Paris Square) in Berlin, with sea of flowers in front of Fr. embassy

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4 years

Fans of The Queen's Gambit, German history aficianados: I went out to Schulzendorf near the new BER airport to find the manor house that stood in for Beth's orphanage in the series. It's an evocative place linked to one of Berlin's most illustrious Jewish families (thread)

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7 years

Final week before #BTW17 and the CDU is rolling out the heavy artillery: cute child pic of Merkel

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3 years

Meine erste Seite 3. Bin schon ein bisschen stolz @berlinerzeitung #Stolpersteine #printlives

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2 years

True Berliners have nicknames for *everything* -- @Tagesspiegel with the city guide

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Anyone, regardless of political bent, addressing a journalist in 2021 as "junge Frau" (young lady) needs to think long & hard about the line of work they're in

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Armin #Laschet : „Entschuldigung, junge Frau. Weil jetzt so ein Tag ist, ändert man nicht die Politik.“ #Hochwasser #Klimaschutz #NRW #Klimakatastrophe #Schuld #Ahrweiler

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"We are Muslim, we are against terrorism." #ParisAttacks #Berlin #PariserPlatz via Louise Osbourne

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Walked past this mural 1,000 times without noticing that the marbling on the meat shows Berlin's districts

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Berlin, January 2021

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1 year

Baerbock follows up with another jibe against Scholz: "They warned me after this week: please, no jokes about the chancellor. And above all: please, no gaffes. But you only avoid gaffes if you don't say anything. And some apparently do that better than I do."

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6 months

Happy 60th to Berlin's most glorious cinema, #KinoInternational . Long may you reign

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Germany's hottest years. @zeitonline with a series of graphs showing the scary trend lines since 1881

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Oh dear -- Julie Delpy, a woman who knows something about European train travel, is not in love with Deutsche Bahn... #C élineisunimpressed

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David Bowie is getting a German stamp in time for what would have been his 75th birthday

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5 months

Berlin just crushing it this time with the between-the-years sunsets

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3 years

This is lovely. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has 630 messages from Germans in this corona year projected onto his palace "Dearest Grandma, this year you turned 102 - we couldn't even hug once. Stay strong! We'll do it in 2021 for your 103rd"

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3 years

The protests come large & small (Berlin-Kreuzberg)

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2 years

Observe the gender balance in the press corps left: 🇺🇸 right: 🇩🇪

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@CarolinaChimoy @inespohl Und hier auch der Beweis von vorne: Links die US-Presse - rechts die deutsche Seite…

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@Nicole_Cliffe @Harpers Katie Roiphe did a hatchet job for @NYTmag on a group of us fighting campus rape at @BrownUniversity in the 90s and has been flogging that same horse ever since

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4 years

Merkel after my own heart: ignores the Boss window and double takes at Butter Lindner

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4 years

Nothing to see here - just the leader of the free world out for a stroll. Wearing her mask.

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2 years

Easily the most impassioned I've ever seen Olaf Scholz: "We will continue to support Ukraine with money and humanitarian aid but this must also be said: we will support it with arms shipments, just as many other countries in Europe are doing, so it can defend itself..." 1/2

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Haltung

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5 years

There is so much of this that reads wrong: "Merkel showed the EU has adopted a new position", "no problem", "must stay in full alignment forever". This is pure Johnson blame game. Waiting for readout from Merkel's office...

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No10 statement in full suggesting talking over (for now) in brexit negotiations

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3 years

No complaints today, Berlin

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3 years

Berlin front page @Tagesspiegel #InaugurationDay

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2 years

Merkel losing to Danish queen at Rock-Paper-Scissors

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Der Beweis, dass Merkel gestern gegen die dänische Königin in Schere, Stein, Papier verloren hat. Papier > Stein.

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3 years

A Merkel sentence if there ever was one, on feminism and female leadership: "Women tend to long for efficiency." „Frauen haben tendenziell eine Sehnsucht nach Effizienz.“

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3 years

A Berlin fall day, & I can't stress this enough: Schlachtensee

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2 years

A nation waits on the edge of its couch cushions: what color tie will Olaf Scholz wear for his #NYE address 🚦 #Tsch üssMerkel

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2 years

In many/most horrific scenarios, don't discount the role of basic butthurt masculinity

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2 years

Krastev, in this Spiegel interview, says Putin once told him in Sochi that he thought the predominance of female Russia specialists in the Obama administration was a deliberate attempt to humiliate him

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Our 87-year-old Berlin neighbor, who's lived in her flat since 1967, uses the stairwell windowsill as a repository for things she thinks any of us in the building might need. Today's offering: 4 pairs of reading glasses

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2 months

1st Berlin cherry blossom sighting of the season! 🌸🍒

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3 years

Wow, look at the age breakdown in polling on who won the #Triell . Absolutely overwhelming support for Green candidate @ABaerbock , whose election chances are hobbled by Germany's disproportionally older populace

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3 years

Das Gesicht der Gerontokratie #Klima

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4 years

Whole side of a building, Berlin-Mitte, September 2020 #wirschaffendas

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3 years

Just by way of comparison: Merkel is holding a 90-minute conversation with patients & essential care workers, asking detailed questions about what would make their lives easier during the pandemic. A week ago it was young trainees with uncertain economic futures

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4 years

Germany's gonna Germany

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2 years

Friends, if you ever get nervous about public speaking, carry yourself with the jaw-dropping arrogance of a German professor berating the Ukrainian ambassador on the basis of lessons drawn by Nazis in his own family during WWII

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Ein Nachfahre der Täter belehrt einen Nachfahren der Opfer und Vertreter einer Nation unter Bomben und stützt sich dabei AUF DIE WELTKRIEGSERFAHRUNG IN SEINER EIGENEN TÄTERFAMILIE. „Bleiben Sie mal beim Zuhören…“.

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