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Leon Askin

"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."

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"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was in Germany when the wall came down."

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"My greetings to you, my Germany."

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"I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen."

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Amber Hurdle

"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have to remember that when I met Elvis, you know, it wasn't the fanfare that it is today or even when he was here in the states and I was in Germany growing up."

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Amber Hurdle

"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."

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Amber Hurdle

"I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good."

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Amber Hurdle

"And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was in the underground until I left Germany."

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Amber Hurdle

"Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false."

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