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With stand-up comedian Henning Wehn

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The Alphabet

Stand-up comedian Henning Wehn takes over a German class and highlights the importance of the four additional German letters in the alphabet, the ß, ä, ü and ö. Where would Düsseldorf be without its umlaut?

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