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...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 11 July [1916] Dear Friend, Your long letter, in which you informed me about how my boys are faring, pleased me very much, but it also filled me with a certain concern in one respect. Whenever my wife confided in any one of my friends, I almost always had to give him up for lost. ... So don't allow the slightest drop of venom into your subconsciousness. It would be such a pity on our fine relations. Surely not that I believed the woman would complain about me outright; it's a matter of indirect influence...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 16 February 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your letter about the condition of my youngest scares me less than you might think. Well-deserved punishment for my having taken the most important step in life so rashly. I begot children with a physically and morally inferior person and cannot complain if they turn out accordingly. Only they will accuse me one day when they are old enough; they will be only too right, unfortunately. So send my poor boy wherever you and Bernstein see fit, if you really think something of it. And even if you silently...
...Heinrich Zangger [Berlin,] 2 June 1917 Dear friend Zangger, Your last letter makes me worry anew because I see that the upkeep of my sick family has acquired a ruinous quality. My net income (after deduction of taxes, etc.) has been reduced to 13,000 marks (this case has now in fact come to pass). From that I need for myself, in order to make at least an appearance of maintaining the kind of lifestyle rightfully expected of me, 5,000 marks. If I don't want to save up a single penny, what's left is 8,000 marks...
...realistic partnership with Russia, with good cooperation on economic matters," says Ruprecht Polenz, head of the Bundestag's foreign-affairs committee. "When you have good cooperation on the economy, there are opportunities for both sides." Alexander Rahr, a Russia specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, says economic issues have come to predominate. "Merkel can't conduct a pro-human rights, pro-ngo policy toward Russia because then how can she defend German business?" Yet even Merkel, raised in East Germany, publicly criticized repression in Chechnya while meeting with Putin in Moscow. She is "cooler and more...
...taken a job as head of the supervisory board of a joint venture between Gazprom and two German firms that is building an underwater gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. Roland Götz, head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, says German dependence on Russian energy supplies will increase, in part because of a growing belief that Russia "is the best alternative to the Middle East. If something happens in Saudi Arabia we are powerless. But Russia is cooperative in many cases. Europe has considerable influence on Russia." Ambiguity...