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FILE - In this May 24, 2007 file picture, Walter Scheel, former German President is photographed in Berlin, Germany. Walter Scheel, who helped shape West Germany's policy of reconciliation with the communist bloc as foreign minister and later served as his country's president, died his party says. He was 97. The president's office told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper Scheel died Wednesday Aug. 24, 2016 after a long illness. Scheel's Free Democratic Party confirmed the death. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)