Coming from a vanished country which worshiped Soviet astronauts, she is a UFO from another world.
Nothing in Angela Merkel's first existence intended her to take the reins of Europe's most powerful economy.
Raised on the other side of the Berlin Wall, in bankrupt Communist Germany, where she obtained a coveted position as a researcher in quantum physics, she always claimed to have awakened late to politics.
In fact, the Chancellor drew from the experiences of her other life formidable weapons to impose herself for sixteen years at the head of reunified Germany.
Read also:
Germany: Angela Merkel's help to Armin Laschet
Angela Dorothea Kasner was born in 1954 in Hamburg, in the heart of a federal Germany which was reborn from its ashes by laying the foundations of the "Soziale Marktwirtschaft", "the social market economy".
On the other side of the Iron Curtain, Walter Ulbricht has just called on Soviet tanks to nip in the bud the first "counter-revolutionary" uprising of his
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 89% left to discover.
Freedom has no borders, like your curiosity.
Keep reading your article for € 1 for 2 months
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Log in