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Doughnut
Hello from Germany,

I can distinctly recall the "jelly doughnut" misinterpretation from my teenage years in the US in the 1970s, so I can attest that it did not start with Len Deighton's novel "Berlin Game".

Nationalities and professions do not take definite articles in German. The second use in the speech is used metaphorically, so it is perfectly OK. If somebody in the office behaves like a politician, he's "ein Politker". Angela Merkel ist Politikerin, because that is her job.

The first use, though, is a borderline case. Technically it's wrong, because he really is talking about real West Berliners, but any reasonable stylist would choose to set up the big ending, where it has a ring to it since one has just heard it, over grammatical details.