Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not like to talk about his family’s tragedies. A close confidante, the former editor-in-chief of “Bild” Kai Diekmann, is now doing this in his new book “I was picture”. His exclusive insights now in star.
A call on the house phone brings me back to the here and now. It’s the police outside the house: “Walter Kohl is here.” The doorbell is already ringing. At Maike’s request, I open the door. In the next second, a man pushes past me like a mountain into the hallway. Unmistakably Walter Kohl.
“There’s exactly the right one,” he hisses at me, storms on into the dead room, where Maike, bent over her husband, is straightening the cuffs on his sleeves. He demands to be left alone in the room with his dead father. He treats the widow on her deathbed like air.
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