Similarities

In Eastern Germany most of the public employment offices are located in former GDR tower blocks. At the entrance of the employment office of Berlin Lichtenberg, an area with one of the highest unemployment rates of Berlin, a sign is installed which reads:

"Similarities with real persons or actual events are purely coincidential and not intended"

The phrase is part of an information often presented at the end of movies with plots based on true historical events to emphasize their fictional character and to thereby avoid possible legal implications.

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