What matters is what comes out at the end.
Entscheidend ist, was hinten rauskommt.
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Helmut Kohl
German chancellor (1982-1998), longest-serving in post-war Germany. He oversaw reunification, the Maastricht Treaty and the euro, but his late years were shaken by the CDU donations scandal.
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