Anne Katrin Walter

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Anne Katrin Walter
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Anne Katrin Walter

1987 (age 3132)
TitleMiss World Deutschland 2008

Anne Katrin Walter is a beauty pageant contestant who represented Germany in Miss World 2008 in South Africa. She studied medicine. [1]

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References

  1. "Miss World Deutschland 2008: Medizinstudentin aus Kiel ist die..." Die Welt (in German). 23 June 2010. Retrieved 28 July 2010.