Peter Van Buren, "Considering My Nazi Reparations" (28 July 2020), The American Conservative
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It will be a long time before I hear whether I qualify for German citizenship. Nothing will replace an extended family I will never know, nothing will displace the dark spaces inside my complex father, but I am anxious to see what does change if I become a German citizen.
— Germans
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It will be a long time before I hear whether I qualify for German citizenship. Nothing will replace an extended family I will never know, nothing will displace the dark spaces inside my complex father, but I am anxious to see what does change if I become a German citizen." in the context of "Peter Van Buren, "Considering My Nazi Reparations" (28 July 2020), The American Conservative" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
About Germans
Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
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