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BERLIN (AP) — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and became a respected elder ...

The grave of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt has had swastikas daubed on it in the Hamburg cemetery where he lies buried, police in the northern city said on Saturday. The vandalism was done ...

First, we cannot help but admire a man who seemed to smoke cigarettes incessantly and yet lived until a month before his 97th birthday. Indeed, on the few occasions over the years when The Scrapbook ...

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of the grave of Helmut and Hannelore Schmidt at the cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Markus Scholz/dpa The grave of former ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from Europe and the United States praised him as an architect of international cooperation and ...

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from around Europe praised him as an architect of international cooperation and post-war European integration. Schmidt ...