Göttingen by Pomme

Claire Pommet (​[klɛʁ pɔmɛ]; born 1996), known professionally as Pomme ([pɔm]), is a French singer, songwriter and musician. “Göttingen“ is a song recorded as a single in 1964 by French singer Barbara, has been credited with having contributed to improved relations between France and Germany in the years after the Second World War. As a Jewish child, Barbara had been a fugitive in German-occupied France during the war. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who had been a student in Göttingen at the time of the song’s release, quoted the lyrics in a speech celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty as having had a major influence on him. The French and German versions of the song, were called “a hymn to Franco-German reconciliation“.
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