1)
alongside:
2) unhelpful:
3) to experience:
4) ruler:
5) within the broader aim:
6) to reassert:
7) senior minister:
8) to harbour (a suspicion, a grudge, doubts):
9) suspicion:
10) everything German (= all
things German):
11) these were mainly open secrets:
12) to erupt to the surface:
13) unlike …, (COMMA):
14) near-contemporaries:
15) (to b) keen to(do):
16) to ensure that:
17) to get over an experience:
18) civilian:
19) to be constantly amazed:
20) notably:
21) when consulting historians:
22) chosen for their expertise on:
23) to lecture sb on sth:
24) when challenged on her views:
25) national guilt – national character:
26) reminded of the size of Germany‘s contribution:
27) misnomer:
28) paymaster:
29) reparations:
30) to be comforted by:
31) Germany’s economic strength, which …:
32) to sustain:
33) younger Germans were sure to seek:
34) dominant force:
35) she was unlucky therefore:
36) to be forced to carry out sth:
37) the pledge:
38) (the pledge) given by her post-war predecessors:
39) struggling to obstruct the process:
40) to argue:
41) too big an issue to be decided ...:
42) to receive backing of consequence:
43) she had little option but:
44) to assent:
45) “sizable”:
46) to contain a threat:
47) as she put it in her memoirs:
48) one instance in which a foreign policy:
49) to pursue:
50) to be met with unambiguous failure:
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