In Germany, Berlin's minister for culture Adrienne Goehler called the World Trade Center twin 110-story towers destroyed by the hijackers ``phallic symbols.''
The comment brought calls for her resignation, but also an explanation from Goehler.
``In the context of my statement that the 'attacks were aimed symbolically at the heart of America,' I also made the comment that the towers are ``phallic symbols,''' she said.
``It was an answer to the question 'What sort of symbolic images did it remind me of?'''

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In Germany, Berlin's minister for culture Adrienne Goehler called the World Trade Center twin <NUMBER>-story towers destroyed by the hijackers ''phallic symbols.''
The comment brought calls for her resignation, but also an explanation from Goehler.
''In the context of my statement that the 'attacks were aimed symbolically at the heart of America,' I also made the comment that the towers are ''phallic symbols,''' she said.
''It was an answer to the question 'What sort of symbolic images did it remind me of?'''
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