Barbara’s Göttingen: A Song That Made History

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France and Germany on Tuesday mark the 50th anniversary of a key treaty that officially cemented the peaceful reconciliation of the two nations two decades after World War II. Another factor that cemented the nascent France-Germany friendship in the 1960’s was a song by French singer Barbara.

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