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Steinmeier speaks on 75th anniversary of the end of WWII

In a speech commemorating the end of World War Two in Europe, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that young people must carry the war's lessons forward. "In 1945 we were liberated. Today we must liberate ourselves from a new kind of nationalism."

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