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Helmut Schmidt, former West German chancellor and political firebrand, dead at 96

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 statesman, died Tuesday. He was 96. German weekly Die Zeit, of which …

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