Merkel's musings on Trump, Ukraine and her childhood
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Berlin: German newspaper Die Zeit has published a series of excerpts from Freedom , the eagerly anticipated memoir by former German chancellor Angela...
Berlin: German newspaper Die Zeit has published a series of excerpts from "Freedom", the eagerly anticipated memoir by former German chancellor Angela Merkel.
The 736-page book, co-written by Merkel and her longtime political adviser Beate Baumann, is due to be published simultaneously in 30 languages on Tuesday.
Here are some of the insights provided by Die Zeit into Merkel's account of her life before politics and her 16 years in power between 2005 and 2021.
On her childhood
Growing up in the former East Germany was "a constant life on the edge", Merkel said in the excerpts published by Die Zeit.
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