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    humble beginnings to become one of Germany's major merchants. With the Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin in 1907, he founded what is today Germany's...
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    von Helmholtz, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Robert Koch, Theodor Mommsen, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Otto von Bismarck, W. E. B. Du Bois, Arthur Schopenhauer...
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    Bereits 1934 war das Kaufhaus Leonhard Tietz A.G. auf der Schildergasse "arisiert" und in "Westdeutsche Kaufhof AG" umbenannt worden. Im Mai 1941 mussten...
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    showing Maximilian symbolically at Charles V's side. The Merchants' House (Kaufhaus) in Freiburg has a statue of the emperor, who had been the important patron...
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