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Germany Offers to Help Rebuild Fire-Damaged Notre Dame

Associated Press

   BERLIN - Germany is offering to help rebuild parts of Notre Dame in
   Paris, a year after the famous cathedral was heavily damaged by fire.

   Officials suggested Wednesday that German craftsmen could remake some
   of the large clerestory windows located far above eye level and
   designed to let light and air into the cathedral.

   The German government said three glass-makers that conduct restoration
   work for cathedrals in Germany could offer "great expertise" to their
   French colleagues.

   Germany's minister for culture, Monika Gruetters, said her country
   would shoulder the costs.

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