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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier inaugurated the rebuilt tower of a church just outside Berlin whose reconstruction has been controversial because of historic links with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The Garrison Church in the city of Potsdam, located just west of Berlin, was the site of the first meeting of Germany’s parliament after the Nazi takeover of power on March 21, 1933. An infamous photograph from the occasion shows Hitler, the recently proclaimed Reich chancellor, shaking hands with then-Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in front of the Garrison Church. The meeting was conve…

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