German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew on her Communist-era experiences to teach a history class at a school in east Berlin on Tuesday - the 52nd anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Merkel, who is campaigning ahead of next month's general election, gave a 45-minute lesson as a 'substitute teacher' for a 12th grade class.
The 59-year-old was able to tell students about her own personal experience of growing up in east Germany before the collapse of Communism.
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