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May the festive music of Ludwig van Beethoven today keep away the restlessnes and rush of our everyday life, may it open the door for a friendly American-German Surgical Meeting and may it ease us into 4 days of scientific exchange in peace and with an open mind, — in a harmonic atmosphere and in a common experience and enjoyment of our stay in this beautiful region of Germany.

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De La Camp, H.B., Vossschulte, K., Nesbit, R.M., Ochsner, A., Linder, F. (1969). Opening Addresses. In: de la Camp, H.B., Linder, F., Trede, M. (eds) Joint Meeting Munich 1968. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49923-4_1

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