What is wrong in this Header? Parse error - Unrecognized

Sorry, I can´t never find what´s wrong in this script!
The W3C HTML Validator can´t find any mistake.
Can anybody help me?

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Parse error - Unrecognized : <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 
4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> 
<title>Atelier Lange - W3C Geprüft</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- 
body { font-family:Verdana,serif; background-color:#e6dcf0; 
color:#010101; }

Thanks,

Ulrich Lange

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Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 18:22:04 UTC