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Former German president Richard von Weizsaecker dies aged 94

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Former German president Richard von Weizsacker, hailed for his moral leadership in post-war Germany, has died, the president’s office said Saturday. He was 94.

Weizsacker, a member of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party, played a major role in Germany’s handling of its Nazi past, calling May 8, 1945, a day of “liberation” for his country rather than a surrender.

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