As she admitted, Pope Francis gave Angela Merkel an important hint in 2017.
In her autobiography, the Christian Democratic CDU politician wrote that as German Chancellor she met the Pope shortly before the G20 summit in Hamburg. According to Merkel, the meeting of twenty major industrialized and emerging countries was not well received at the time, partly because of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement announced by President Donald Trump. The German weekly Die Zeit published an excerpt from Merkel’s autobiography.
The publication of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s autobiography next Tuesday by Kiepenheuer & Witsch is being treated almost as a state affair. The media published the first fragments.
Merkel asked the pope, without naming names, how he would deal with fundamentally different opinions among a group of important figures. “He understood me immediately and immediately replied: ‘Bend, bend, bend, but make sure it doesn’t break.’ In this spirit, I tried to solve my problem with the Paris Agreement and Trump in Hamburg, although I did not yet know exactly what it meant,” the former German Chancellor recalled.
Merkel’s autobiography will be published next Tuesday (November 26) by Kiepenheuer & Witsch and will be presented the same day during a conversation between author and presenter Anne Will at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. According to the Cologne publishing house, the book, which Merkel wrote together with her long-time advisor Beate Baumann, will be published in more than 30 countries.
‘I literally had a lump in my throat’
In turn, the German weekly “Jüdische Allgemeine” published an excerpt of the book containing Merkel’s memories of her visit to Israel in 2008, when the then-chancellor visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Institute in Jerusalem and took part in a memorial ceremony. in the Hall of Remembrance, and then she went to the monument to the murdered children.
“It was not my first time here and I had experienced the ceremony in the Memorial Hall several times. But every time I came to these two places I literally got a lump in my throat. What indescribable suffering the mass murder of six million Jews, committed by Germany during the time of National Socialism, has brought to the Jewish nation, Europe and the world,” the former German Chancellor recalled.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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