The grave of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt and his wife Loki Schmidt has had swastikas daubed on it in the Hamburg cemetery where the couple lies buried, police in the northern city said on ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from Europe and the United States praised him as an architect of international cooperation and ...

BERLIN -- Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and became a respected elder ...

BERLIN – A timeline of the career of Helmut Schmidt: — Dec. 23, 1918: Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt born in Hamburg, Germany. — 1939-1945: Serves periodically as a soldier during World War II, ...

Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and became a respected elder statesman, died ...

News of the death of Helmut Schmidt on November 10 had hardly emerged before the German media went into overdrive eulogizing the former chancellor, who would have turned 97 on December 23. He was ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. Always outspoken, he was dubbed Schmidt-schnauze (Schmidt the gob) by parliamentary colleagues, but ...

BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, stood firm against a wave of homegrown terrorism and became a respected elder ...

BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, died Tuesday. He was 96. German weekly Die Zeit, of which Schmidt was a co-publisher, ...

Helmut Schmidt, who was West Germany’s chancellor from 1974 to 1982, has died in his hometown of Hamburg, staffers in two of his offices said Tuesday. Employees at Schmidt’s office in Germany’s ...

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