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News Wire article from: AP Online ...shamisen'' guitar until she was 107. Hans Conrad Schuhmann INGOLSTADT, Germany (AP) - Hans Conrad Schuhmann, a former East German soldier immortalized in a ...
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News Wire article from: AP Online ...AP) _ A former East German soldier immortalized...Germany. Hans Conrad Schuhmann made his...day after East Germany closed...communist state. Schuhmann, 56, was...in an ...

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