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Aid for Flood Victims

June 28, 2013

When it comes to flood relief most Germans think it’s acceptable for the state to take on more debt to provide assistance.

A house is inundated by the Elbe river near the village of Fischbeck, in the federal state of Saxony Anhalt, June 12, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region's worst floods in a decade. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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