German - Statesman | December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015
Britain is less European-minded than Greece.
Helmut Schmidt
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My education has been pro-England. I have been an England-minded citizen of Hamburg, and I am still in a way English-minded, but I have been disappointed by the Brits over the years.
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The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.
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When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.
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I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying documents, my father and I. His father was Jewish, but because my father was an illegitimate child, it was rather easy to pretend that his father was unknown.
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Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from their grandfathers. This is the same all over the globe.
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Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British.
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If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.
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Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others.
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The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
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The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.
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