Helmut Kohl passed away
16th June, 2017Category:
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, passed away on Friday. He was 87.
Germany's longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Kohl was a driving force behind the introduction of the euro currency, convincing sceptical Germans to give up their cherished deutschemark. German reunification, which he achieved after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
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