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By DAVID RISING "One can't reduce it to the Imsan- San Nicolas
BERLIN (AP) — German simple fact that one coun- 524 8833
Chancellor Angela Merkel try won the war and the
will mark the 100th anni- other lost," Schoenpflug DOCTOR ON DUTY
versary of the end of World said. "Germany is a coun- Oranjestad
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German President Frank- its entire national narrative
Walter Steinmeier will be out of the defeat of 1945" San Nicolas
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Queen Elizabeth II. By contrast in Turkey, which Oranjestad:
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ers visit the capitals of its in World War I, the war's San Nicolas
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more than 2 million Ger- In Germany, even though A field of graves belonging to WWI soldiers in the main cem- Women in Difficulties
man troops. the end of World War I is etery in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. EMERGENCY
Next week, the German now viewed through the Associated Press Police 100
parliament is holding a prism of Hitler and the Ho- Oranjestad 527 3140
combined commemora- locaust, in the immediate army by agreeing to the ringing of church and secu- Noord 527 3200
tion of the 100th anniver- postwar period there ac- Nov. 11 surrender. lar bells around the world Sta. Cruz 527 2900
sary of the declaration of tually was a time of uto- "There was a war of on Nov. 11 to mark the San Nicolas 584 5000
the first German republic, pianism, with movements dreams, a clash of utopias" war's centenary. Police Tipline 11141
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brutal Nazi-era pogrom of peace and democracy, left, Schoenpflug said. day to commemorate the Red Cross 582 2219
against Jews known as Schoenpflug said. Although there aren't any more than 17 million victims
Kristallnacht (Night of Bro- Yet on the other side of the national commemorations of World War I and as a call TAXI SERVICES
ken Glass), and the 29th political spectrum, utopia- in Germany marking the for understanding and rec- Taxi Tas 587 5900
anniversary of the fall of the nism on the right also gave war's end, individual events onciliation across borders," Prof. Taxi 588 0035
Berlin Wall. Almost as an birth to fascism, he said. are planned, including an the ministry said.q Taxi D.T.S. 587 2300
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peace like it did in France civilian leaders sold out the together to coordinate the
and Britain. The war's end
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