German Canadians
First German Canadian Federal Prime Minister of Canada: John Diefenbaker, 1957–1963
First German Canadian Governor General of Canada: Edward Schreyer, 1979–1984
First German Canadian Provincial Premier: Ralph Klein, Premier of Alberta, 1992–2006
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“Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”
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