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Originally Posted by Doitsu
because the 1996 spelling reform officially sanctioned the use of English style possessive constructions with straight and curly apostrophes in German. (The pre-1996 spelling rules only allowed straight and curly apostrophes in contracted words.)
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I don't think the new spelling rules forbids straight and curly apostrophes in German:
Duden | Apostroph
http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/rec...geln/apostroph