Sebastian Pinera Chile's President called on 25 apologize for any interpretations that might arise from a phrase written in a guest book of the German presidency, which bothered to Berlin to paraphrase the words of a hymn sung in the Nazi period.
"I had no awareness that this sentence could be linked to a dark past of this country, so sorry and I ask the appropriate apologies, "Piñera said a public act Santiago.
The president explained that" he wrote in his book a statement of gratitude and appreciation for what Germany had done for Chile concerning the earthquake (27 Feb.) and the rescue of the miners. "
Piñera said that" a sentence added at the end I had learned and repeated many times in my days as a child in the decade of the 50 and 60, in the Divine Word College (Santiago), which was "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles', meaning 'Germany, Germany above all' and that comes from the German reunification in times of (Chancellor Otto von) Bismarck ".
The phrase written in guestbook Germanic office last Saturday under a state visit caused unease in the Christian German President Wulff, according to the newspaper today appropriated Germany "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
The commotion caused by the interpretation of the words of the Chilean head of state also caused a public clarification of the Chilean foreign minister, Alfredo Moreno, who insisted he was merely a greeting without further connotation.
Piñera visited Germany as part of a European tour that also looked England and France. (Xinhua) 26/10/2010
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