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Thursday, February 11, 2010

German row over WWII museum eased

A dispute over a museum on Germans driven from eastern Europe after 1945 that has caused friction with Poland looked to be over Thursday after the main expellees' body and Berlin reached a compromise.

Federation of the Expelled (BdV) head Erika Steinbach said she had agreed with the government not to seek nomination to the board organising the planned documentation and exhibition centre in Berlin.

Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Thursday hailed the compromise. "It is a good day for Polish-German relations," Sikorski said in an official statement.

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