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Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz.

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Bassam Tibi
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 4
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