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Tim_Tex
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16 Jun 2017, 1:17 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/europe/obit-helmut-kohl/index.html


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16 Jun 2017, 6:30 pm

who used 16 years as chancellor of germany to build a system of donation accounts for illegal donations, and refused to name the donors when under investigation. or in his words: "I can't remember anything".


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17 Jun 2017, 2:24 am

shlaifu wrote:
who used 16 years as chancellor of germany to build a system of donation accounts for illegal donations, and refused to name the donors when under investigation. or in his words: "I can't remember anything".


He will be remembered for the magnitude of the accomplishment of German unity, and for his role in ending the Cold War, not for that donation thing, and rightly so.


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17 Jun 2017, 7:44 pm

Kohl did work for German reunification following the dismantling of the Soviet Union and eventual removal of the Berlin wall.