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Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

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Kurt Tucholsky
Age: 45 †
Born: 1890
Born: January 9
Died: 1935
Died: December 21
Journalist
Jurist
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Prose
Satirist
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Berlin
Germany
Kaspar Hauser
Peter Panter
Theobald Tiger
Ignaz Wrobel
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