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January 26, 2004
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A German politician who had denied his grandfather was a Nazi now has admitted the reverse. Not only was Josef Paul Sauvigny a member of the Nazi Party as mayor of Brilon, but he also joined the SA, the Nazi storm troopers, a few months after the Nazis came to power in 1933, Friedrich Merz admitted Jan. 22.

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