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As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this. Gunter Blobel

Me People Destruction Old Made Big Before Group Restore Had Part Nobel Soon Were Heard Impression Friends Germany Child Wanted Help Who Even Started

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more. Gunter Grass

Myself Sometimes Face Met Skin Other Wounded Wounding More Feel Since Always Least Question Campaigns Germany Any Grew Decided Should Ignore Grow Thick Thick Skin Things

Auschwitz speaks against even a right to self-determination that is enjoyed by all other peoples because one of the preconditions for the horror, besides other, older urges, was a strong and united Germany. Gunter Grass

People Strong Older Other Besides Horror Self-Determination Because Auschwitz Germany Against Urges Speaks Even United Right Enjoyed

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany. Gustav Krupp

Today Service Will Pledge Ourselves Unanimously Idea His Germany Forever Confess Behind Movement Eternal Fuehrer Stand Thereby

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. Gustav Stresemann

War Constitution World Result Old Feeling Thinking Changed Collapsed Structure Economic Germany Order Social Social Order World War

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Gustav Stresemann

War Lost Nothing State See More Colonization Individuals Participation Most Territories Frequently Overlook Still Loss Historians End Germany Than Often Meaning Serious Suffered Assets

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. Gustav Stresemann

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. Gustav Stresemann

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism. Gustav Stresemann

Conflict Socialism People Old Nothing Progressive Given Could Had Ideas Partly Alternative Germany Successful Serve Defeated

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers. Hartmut Michel

Son Ancestors Born Area Federal Part Generations Mainly July Germany Republic Elder Karl Farmers Lived

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans. Helmut Kohl

Me Our Air Would Would-Be Clear Germany American Available Bases

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so. Helmut Kohl

Will Important Neighbor East Russia Remain Most Germany

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it. Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Myself You Strong Must Telly Athletes Be Prepared Physically League Like Opponents Real Germany Expect Hard Premier Premier League Prepared Watched

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. Henry Charles Carey

Increase Has-Been India Case Countries Protected Does Been Nor Germany Commerce Spain Turkey Shown Grow Now Portugal

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany. Herbert A. Simon

Engineer Father Engineering Earning States Diploma Born Had Wisconsin Come His Germany June After Electrical United United States Milwaukee

The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time. Hjalmar Schacht

Time Jews Must All-Time Disappeared Germany Influence Realize

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. Horst Koehler

Leadership Needs Political Country Sides Must Atlantic Compromise Both Both Sides Ideas Partners Knows Germany Sovereign Which Capable

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? Horst Koehler

Deep Purple was sinking with Ritchie. We were playing to quarter houses in Europe, which is one of our strongest territories - in Germany. Smaller venues, and they weren't even full. So had we continued that way, and had Ritchie not walked out, we would have finished; that would have been the end of it. Ian Gillan

Finished Sinking Our Way Out Would Strongest Purple Ritchie Had Smaller Houses Venues Territories Quarter Were Continue Been End Walked Germany Which Full Europe Deep Even Deep Purple Playing

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Jews Fury About Had Continuing Germany Treatment

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s. Jacob Weisberg

Government Rebellion Benefits Tyranny Country State Back Our Out Systems Intrusion Colonial Tradition Providing Germany Suspicious Against Social Workers Interference Naturally European Grow Comparison Founded

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. James F. Byrnes

Struggle Peace People World Power Partner Become Military World Peace East Between West German German People Germany Interest Should Pawn

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. James F. Byrnes

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