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On the occasion of her 100th birthday, Hitler’s filmmaker denies her role in the Holocaust
Facing the highest rates of unemployment in three years, German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder recruited longtime friend Peter Hartz, Volkswagen’s personnel manager, to chair a committee that would look for solutions. That was in February. Ten days ago, the two men appeared before an invitation-only crowd of 700 at the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, bearing the result of that labor.