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Sat 04 Apr 2007Merkel rebukes premier for eulogy to ex-judgeGERMANY:Chancellor Merkel has rebuked a leading Christian Democrat (CDU) colleague who eulogised an elderly CDU politician as a "resistance fighter" although, as a Nazi-era military judge, he handed down death sentences to deserters.Last Wednesday in Freiburg, Günther Oettinger, the state premier of Baden-Württemberg, delivered a funeral oration for Hans Filbinger, his predecessor in the job for 12 years until 1978.