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If you refer to the translation in the lower part of the article: That's a rather free translation of the upper part of the article that was done by me, the original author.

I am a native german speaker.

You probably read the author's own translation into English, not an automatic one.

Was it machine translated? It was my understanding that it was the work on a nonnative speaker.

Which says a lot about Google Translate, or my reading comphrehension; I am not sure which one.