That's my Christmas reading sorted then - Helmut Kohl has a book out (I wonder if it's got any good recipes?). In it he reveals what it was like to be on the end of late-era Thatcher ranting (when she was seriously deranged):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4395364.stm
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On another occasion he says she claimed to be ready to veto reunification declaring: "We've beaten the Germans twice and now they are back". So much for not mentioning the war.
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So now we know what Maggie was doing in the 80s - trying to stop the Germans reuniting! This puts her in the same camp as the Soviet hardliners, of course...