One of Angela Merkel's closest political friends is the former SPD mayor of Hamburg and friend of Helmut Schmidt Klaus von Dohnányi. He is the nephew of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor and theologian who was executed by the Nazis at Plötzensee in Berlin. His own father was also executed by the Nazis.
He says of Merkel that she is not a typical German politician, "Merkel has a Scandinavian temperament, she does politics the way the Swedes or Danes do."
Worth pointing out that one of the most popular and successful German chancellors was WIlli Brandt, who sought refuge in Scandinavia during the Nazi terror.
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