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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Paul Merton

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Ich begann mit einem Ausflug nach Ellis Island und sah selbst, wo Tausende europäischer Einwanderer auf amerikanischem Boden ihre ersten Schritte unternahmen und nichts als ihren Ehrgeiz mitbrachten: Menschen wie Erich von Stroheim und Adolph Zukor.

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