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all mine because no one should have to make up your own mind. dw, may feel mine's the i also to say i never tired of explaining how germans think to both the germans and the french at starch. born is a german in frankfort. he fled to france with his jewish family in 1933. i guess it is regarded as the key intellectual figure behind franco german cooperation to a 100 years after it ended the 1st world war still cast the long shadow today. because we would like to talk to him about the great war and his work for german french relations in michigan began meetings, question anglo sale. this took

a wholesale, you've spent your whole life explaining how you became french. have you succeeded in becoming a frenchman? good. some time, partly there's a lot to be criticized in front. the french nationalism is very strong. how do i know people hold onto the memory of the 1st world war? in my opinion, find too much. because president has just travelled across the vast form of battle ground at the 1st world war to show how deep the connection with the wall still is . that there was a deep connection in every french family. all of them had at least one fallen soldier and the fast wild wall in front. hi, skip this. the 1st world war is commemorated in france, but in germany it's quite a different story than in france. they call it like holland. again, the great wars pop, the language alone tells us that remembrance is different. why is that

a home the the fee because a lot more people died in the 1st thing in the 2nd world, walks in the southeast in the 2nd world war. and i don't mean this disrespectfully, a few 100000 french, were killed by the 1st world war. it was millions. every family had that dead to the people are more reluctant to commemorate the 2nd world war. because fronds wasn't quite as honorable in its defeat, is we'll have this one guy, he's not going to issue this. it was by end of what is it that the french commemorate about the 1st world war and then he didn't ask and back to good thing. is it 63, or what is it? what is this stuff is prob, i knew when fox and i was a boy scout, my number is 8. 09 years old on to that was 6 of us and a groups and every member of this group competed. why did i get to that? i was competitive to that. i want as the leader of this group, and i said, that's

a little strange. i'm still a job and yes, match, you'll be french, they said, and it's symbolic for you to do it. i didn't experience anything else or helping me and both of my mother's 1st experiences. yes. my father died when i was young. well, wonderful. i didn't school. it was great how they accepted me. who did what it was about. i had private lessons for free with a teacher and so on. then after a year, my french was advanced and i was really proud. i, they, they didn't put me in great falls, that doesn't start to. that is, and that's good. what it happened different if you had been treated differently here. how did you feel about it? it's about kind of the intake of that. it wasn't integration, it was really assimilation and thoughts on the boy scouts group was wonderful. who's my schoolmates? it wasn't easy at the beginning. i couldn't speak a word of french and 5 minutes. they asked me come onto japan time because that

insulted me in the german school. i thought they were throwing insults at me too. so i started fighting you started fights? yes, i did. what happened next? they laughed at me, but i was treated badly as a little jewish boy in my school in frankfort, and therefore therefore, would have been found that you were to say you have only obviously you have to put up with a great deal of suffering and test. see how you say yourself, that's how things got off to a bad start for yourself. vincent, you approach this difficult task with such great dedication, rebuilding a relationship between france and germany, titian invited. and how did you achieve that without hatred? after such a terrible beginning? that it's still big and you called me so how could i write about my experiences without bias? i can't say just that i had a very positive temperament. this because he can use this as a how would you describe your role?

you played a major part in the franco german reconciliation endorse center, saying bad things about germans in germany. bad things about france in france. that's the main go. it usually works is augustine. i say a lot of bad things about germany and germany and about france and france. nobody minds, union destiny. what do? why not have this food, nobody minds? if i said, because i'm the way i am all this, which means i can get away with saying and doing anything, i'm in absolute advocates of understanding and reconciliation. so what i say can only be right, that's not actually the truth, but i let people believe it does even though it's vega all stars. what is it that made it possible for the germans and the french to get along and talk to one another today as if these wars had never happened as it is that how it is? so nice it was. uh, i wouldn't say that's the case even when they know full well that these was

happened and still, but that's how i describe it. everything has been done to ensure the was a not forgotten, but nothing is forgotten because of that. so sorry, that is that hitler, the concentration camps and not forgotten. none of that should have struct, genuine human communication between the germans and the french is not with every body. of course there is still a generation today who cannot accept the phrase, the germans not still exists. no. but on the whole, the 2nd and 3rd generation are now friends friendly and germany friendly. and for i think this has a house. i was just as read as i was the negative tactics all over one for all the gifts that i mean like uh, let me call to america and england who divide the 2 countries which are rejected here. why should we argue with germany, when we no longer argue with england, they should,

and then it's best either done it alpha and then after that and you say that the wars are not forgotten, we are commemorating the 1st world war. now, what does this commemoration have to do with us and our lives today? is it still necessary, or is it an old habits that we no longer need? i just need no more stuff on board. we don't really need it anymore, but we are talking about like hometown, great remembrance for a great wall. so many more germans fell in the 2nd world. gold and french find, find mall, which is why the germans often don't understand why, like on gas means. the 1st world war, the most french people, is in the 2nd world war, and this has to be reiterated again and again. front suffered relatively little compared with germany. we didn't really get it, in fact, visually died, so on. so i certainly believe that the 2nd world war left its mark on

front. it is buddhist. that was the resistance. a lot of hey ro, i can't see this bottle, lots of heinous things happen to this, such as denunciations and so, so, so by that what was gone the hall however, it was really a minor weld waterfront. if not the gemini, germany had many more victims, particularly snowfall. get this message that would you say you are at heart, both german and french, one consoles, as i know, my identity is completely french. but it's true that i started gemini, i'm a professor of german, so i've learned 2 languages fluently. this was a here how to describe. it's write it out for you and i have it. yeah. and she is doing and how you never spoke german with your 4 sons stuff as especially boost. that's something you regret denying them that culture. yes i do. i deeply regret it . if i have a catholic, i would spend

a long time confessing it about that's the way it is. like maybe i didn't want them to feel judgments to it. but you know, it's one of them spent a year and job clinic and started for a year in strasburg, so he can speak german one of the 4. by the way, it's very german to have for sense windows a n g last a lot. is that for you also? yes, my students always jumped about that. but i laughed so much, you know, very french would you say no better germans, with a sense of humor to the who more for the doors and the height in the when you look at your up today, how does it make you sad to see strong ideologies on the rise, which appeal again to young people attracted to the notions of blaming others for problems. finding simplistic explanations for it and one country wants to leave the you. does this make you lose hope stuff, isn't toddlers?

daddy huffman one should never lose herbert or allow it to be taken away. it's true, however, that europe is in a very sorry stage of us as all name 2 countries and then hungry is as on european as it gets and poland to various other countries. no longer feel european and that's a great pity oil. who does this is on the french president has really done a lot for europe here and is continuing to do so. now he's proposed a european ami god. while the old people among us will say that this already filed in 1954 and the citizens, but it could work this time. none of the individual european armies have very strong. so a common one could be a good thing and it combines with hagler mystical. so maybe you have grandchildren. how do we explain you're up to this young generation?

what does the new generation need to know? roughly on the so they have to know what happened in the past band is crucial votes for them and you see what progress can be made. the boat is opened just as phrase would have been a revolution 20 years ago. that is that the key on the people know what happened in the past when people have to commemorate morris in order to move forward fund again can, you know, don't need that to resume. it's always important to know about the past as much as we own it. that is, so by that side it should be widespread guns and that shouldn't be stupid answers to questions about the recent past now is just because it's already been forgotten . hagler say i missed a call save. now it's time for our 3 incomplete sentences. i started a statement and you finish it. my greatest happiness is my wife. my greatest fear

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