World leaders marked today the 90th anniversary of the end of WWI. Verdun was the site of the longest lasting and of the costiest battle between France and Germany in 1916. France and Germany confronted again during WWII. After the end of the war, beginning of 1950, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman launched the process of the Franco-German reconciliation which continued in the coming decades, even sometimes by small and unsure steps. In 2007, the first volume of a common Franco-German history textbook was published, being followed in April 2008 by a second one. At the end of almost 100 years, history was successfully, because found an alternative present and future.
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