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Germany’s love of ‘cowboys and Indians’ is dragged into election culture war

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CDU politician Christian Hartmann is a fan of the works of Karl May , best known for his “ Winnetou’s Western novels.

The stories of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand were some of the first to depict the Native Americans as civilised and in touch with nature.

Native American Association of Germany has described the series as “problematic”.

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formal

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English

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62

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