Friday, June 25, 2021

Antony Blinken and Heiko Maas share a German beer

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German foreign minister Heiko Maas met in Berlin yesterday.

They visited the Holocaust memorial in the centre of the city, where they met a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor.

One of Blinken’s ancestors was a victim of the Hitler terror. Blinken is a Jew.

Blinken's stepfather was the only Holocaust survivor of the 900 children of his school in Poland. 

Maas and Blinken enjoying a German beer spoke about the close relationship between their two countries and the German foreign minister, with a smile, admitted that in a phone call with ‘Tony' he had the feeling that this was his first time to talk with a US secretary of state.

Obviously Germany and the US are back doing business as close partners after four difficult years.

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