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Obama and the Brandenburg gate
As a Berliner who was there when Obama spoke in Berlin I would like to correct only a detail: It was actually not the Brandenburg Gate which the Obama campaign used as a backdrop for their candidate's speech. True, they intended to use it. But in a long discussion process it was eventually refused by the German authorities. What Obama ...
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BodoMrozek
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September 22, 2009