German History

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“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
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