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Violent past, digital future: Angela Merkel's remarks at Davos

  • Written by Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
Merkel after her address in DavosAP Photo/Markus Schreiber

Two world wars and a genocide have a way of focusing the mind.

Maybe that’s why references to “lessons of the past” are almost ritualistic in addresses such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s to the World Economic Forum. Here’s how Merkel checked that box in...

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