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Germans do not want to rewrite history: Koehler

German President Horst Koehler Tuesday in Warsaw assured Poles no serious political force in Germany wants or intends to revise the history of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath. The statement came in response to Polish fears that a planned Berlin-based centre documenting the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe after the WWII defeat of Nazi Germany could be used to skew or revise historical facts about Germany's role as the primary aggressor during the war.

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