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Hundreds of nostalgic Germans flock to see Angela Merkel’s portrait

A portrait of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is drawing around 900 visitors a day to Berlin’s Bode Museum, an increase of up to 90% compared with the same period last year. The painting has sparked reflections on Merkel’s 16 years in power, with some visitors expressing nostalgia.

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00:27To be continued...
00:31Since the 1. Juli, we have a significant increase in the number of visitors.
00:37We have in normal times, also in the normal time,
00:42we have about 550 visitors and visitors today.
00:46And now we have about 900 visitors today.
00:50This is an increase in 85-90% of visitors.
00:56And we can actually stand now say that this trend also holds up.
01:00Also, it is really broken up to today.
01:13So, how powerful is it, that I like.
01:16And while I have seen her in her regime very critically,
01:24because it is not the political direction, which I support,
01:28I think today, that it was a very stable time with her.
01:33And I want sometimes to miss her Ooh and do my reach the stability
01:36in Western politics.
01:38It is a kind of childhood for me, because I have been 25 years old.
01:41I was born and was, I think, in Merkels the Kanzlerin.
01:44And until now, when Scholz was then the Kanzler,
01:46I I raised a whole life of Merkel and I was in Georgia.
01:52It was always a sort of new age, where it was like.
01:53It is for me a kind of memory,
01:57I was connected with a nice memory because I had a nice childhood.
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