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A lone figure walks through Hamburg after the end of World War II in 1945. Hugo Schmidt / Keystone / Getty Images

Comparing what happens today with what happened in the past does not always help much, unless the necessary precautions are taken and exercise helps to better understand that present that slips out of hand and that at times is unapproachable. It is common that in times of crisis you want to observe what happened in previous crises, what was done to get out of the mess and suffering, what worked, what failed. Now, when one begins to have a rough idea of ​​the scale of the slap that the pandemic is going to give to the world's economies, there are those who turn their eyes to fix ...

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