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==Background==
==Background==
Merz's grandfather Josef Paul Sauvigny was a [[Nazi]] politician and mayor of Brilon in western Germany. Sauvigny praised the Nazi “national revolution” in 1933 and renamed his town's streets after party bigwigs. He applied for membership in the [[Nazi party]] as early as May 1933, a few months after [[Hitler]] seized power. Friedrich Merz has described his grandfather as "an admirable role model".
Merz's grandfather Josef Paul Sauvigny was a [[Nazi]] politician and mayor of Brilon in western Germany. Sauvigny praised the Nazi “national revolution” in 1933 and renamed his town's streets after party bigwigs. He applied for membership in the [[Nazi party]] as early as May 1933, a few months after [[Hitler]] seized power. Friedrich Merz has described his grandfather as "an admirable role model".
==2025 election==
==2025 election==
[[File:Photo 2024-11-25 12-04-58.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Merz: "Don't be afraid of [[nuclear war]]".]]
Never before in [[German]] history has a man who had not even been elected chancellor yet negotiated the biggest borrowing in the history of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] with parties that lost the [[election]], in a [[Bundestag]] that was long since dissolved. Before being sworn into office former [[Russian]] President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] posted on [[social media]]:
Never before in [[German]] history has a man who had not even been elected chancellor yet negotiated the biggest borrowing in the history of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] with parties that lost the [[election]], in a [[Bundestag]] that was long since dissolved. Before being sworn into office former [[Russian]] President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] posted on [[social media]]:
{{Cquote|Future Chancellor Merz accuses Russia of waging [[war]] in [[Europe]] and targeting Germany with [[arson]], contract killings & [[disinformation]]. You're not in power yet but already lying like [[Goebbels]]. [[Nazi Germany]] attacked us like this from 1941-1945. We know how it ended. Bad start, Fritz! Hope it ends the same way for you.<ref>https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/26845</ref>}}
{{Cquote|Future Chancellor Merz accuses Russia of waging [[war]] in [[Europe]] and targeting Germany with [[arson]], contract killings & [[disinformation]]. You're not in power yet but already lying like [[Goebbels]]. [[Nazi Germany]] attacked us like this from 1941-1945. We know how it ended. Bad start, Fritz! Hope it ends the same way for you.<ref>https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/26845</ref>}}