Book excerpt: "Freedom: Memoirs 1954 2021" by Angela Merkel

Book excerpt: "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" by Angela Merkel

The former Chancellor of Germany writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police state in East Germany, and her years as leader of a nation reunited following ...

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Freedom by Angela Merkel review – settling scores with silence

The former German chancellor slights her enemies by barely mentioning them – and is frustratingly opaque on her own big calls. Towards the end of her 16-year tenure, former German chancellor Angela ...

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Merkel’s memoir reveals her blind spots on Russia

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Relax Germany’s debt brake, says Angela Merkel

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Angela Merkel Isn’t Ready to Say Sorry

In her memoir, Angela Merkel doesn’t take the chance to make amends.

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Regrets, feminism, and Trump’s ‘fascination’ with Putin: key takeways from Merkel’s memoir

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Angela Merkel expresses ‘huge concern’ at Elon Musk’s US government role

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Angela Merkel ‘tormented’ by Brexit vote and saw it as ‘humiliation’ for EU

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Angela Merkel defends ties with Russia and blocking Ukraine from Nato

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Nato right to heed Russian anger over Ukraine accession plan, Merkel says in memoirs

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Germany's Merkel recalls Putin's 'power games' and contrasting US presidents in her memoirs

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Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

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Ireland lose to NZ in first home defeat since 2021

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Grubhub to be sold for a fraction of what Just Eat Takeaway paid in 2021

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Obama's Secret Service agent breached security to have an affair: Memoir

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Feds warn against bed rails, citing 18 deaths since 2021

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Keke Palmer talks lessons from Hollywood and new memoir

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A Tennessee man is convicted of killing 2 at a high school basketball game in 2021

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