German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg leaves a debate about a reform of Germany's military draft legislation in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, February 24, 2011. Chancellor Angela Merkel's Defence Minister was stripped of his PhD on Wednesday by the university that awarded the title, after he admitted to serious flaws in a doctoral thesis that is the focus of a plagiarism row. Guttenberg apologised "from the bottom of my heart" to parliament earlier on Wednesday for errors he blamed on a busy workload. But he said he would not resign over the allegations and rejected claims of plagiarism, insisting he had not deliberately deceived anyone.
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