Helmut Schmidt did not just find fools tiresome. He obliterated them.

赫尔穆特·施密特不仅发现了傻瓜令人讨厌，他还消灭了他们。

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The liberals and Social Democrats are old bedmates, having ruled together at federal level from 1969 until the liberals unceremoniously dumped the Social Democratic chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, in favour of the Christian Democratic leader, Helmut Kohl, in 1982.

ECONOMIST: Germany

It was also what happened to Helmut Schmidt in 1982, when the FDP broke away from its coalition with his SPD.

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There is nothing new about French pleas for lower interest rates nor, for that matter, about similar German pleas, which were common under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the early 1980s.

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