“If we continue on for decades as before, then I have to be pessimistic about our country.”

— Helmut Schmidt

in conversation with the authors of the series of documentaries "Der Fall Deutschland", statcion Phoenix, 12. February 2006, phoenix.de http://www.phoenix.de/24378.htm

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