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AGAINST THE ODDS: Angela Merkel’s Rise to Power

AGAINST THE ODDS: Angela Merkel’s Rise to Power. Video of the Power Point Presentation, New Ulm, MN, Public Library, March 26, 2015.

As the daughter of a Lutheran pastor growing up in communistic East Germany (behind the Iron Curtain), Angela Merkel’s limited opportunities seemed to bar her from success. Dr. Yogi Reppmann discusses this remarkable woman’s journey to the most powerful position in Europe. Since 1961, shortly before the Berlin Wall had been built, Yogi was visiting every summer his grandma in the famous city of Jena, East Germany.

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The question that confronts us today is the same as in 1931-32: Do our leaders have the capacity to reach beyond their grasp, to challenge us to seek the higher angels of nature, to choose "Be informed! Be informed!" rather than "Be afraid! Be afraid!" In the end, however, we know that world peace is too important to be left in the hands of our leaders. Peace starts in our own back yards when we speak our for understanding when their is disharmony, food security where there is hunger, health care where there is disease, education where there is illiteracy, conservation where there is environmental harm, sustainable development where there is poverty ... and when we write letters across border to build goodwill and better friendships. - William Tubbs (2019)

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