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... that the 2018 Te Deum for choir by Peter Reulein uses the same instruments including a bandoneon as Palmeri's Misatango, and is inspired by tango, habanera and huapango?
... that German president Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, visited St. Francis Cathedral in Xi'an, China, 300 years after construction began?
... that respected travelling bandleader Otto Schwarz and his Bavarian String Band were interned in Douglas, Isle of Man, during World War I?
... that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?
... that Arthur Arndt's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust?
... that Weltdeutsch was a proposal for a German-based language by Nobel-Prize laureate and pacifist Wilhelm Ostwald, created in an episode of chauvinistic fervour?
... that there was only one Friedrichshafen FF.1 aircraft and it was destroyed in a crash?
... that Maria Stromberger was sent to Auschwitz at her own request?

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