View image in fullscreen Theresa May, UK prime minister, and Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, pause during a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, November, 2016. Far from showing her disdain for patriotism, Merkel writes, she found the flag-waving “inappropriate” because she believed her party should be humble in victory. As a result, she spoke little about her East German identity as she rose through the party ranks. View image in fullscreen Angela Merkel in 1990 Photograph: Melde Bildagentur/ullstein bild/Getty Images7. But that didn’t endear him to East German authorities, who were state atheist by policy and suspicious of any member of the intelligentsia.

Source: The Guardian November 26, 2024 17:22 UTC