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Objects of desire, at least for a shoe museum: shoes by Angela Merkel, here in Bayreuth in 2015
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Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) is following a special request on the sidelines of the Federal Assembly this Sunday.
On behalf of the Weißenfels shoe museum, he wants to ask ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) for a pair of her shoes for the museum's collection.
During her 16-year tenure, Merkel has declined to give up a couple, they say.
Now the museum has asked him in a letter for help.
"I'm happy to do so, with no guarantee of success," Haseloff said.
The museum in Weißenfels in southern Saxony-Anhalt shows historical shoes from antiquity to the present day, including clogs from Holland, boots from Scandinavia and sandals from Turkey.
According to a spokeswoman, the collection also includes shoes by Helmut Kohl, who was Chancellor from 1982 to 1998.
Weißenfels was once the center of shoe production in the GDR.
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