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Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism. Luke Harding

War Berlin Wall Anti-Semitism Cold Cold War Collapse Berlin Born Feared Lead Most Return Were End Left-Wing Germans Germany Wall Movement After While Might Reich United Fourth

Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s. Luke Harding

Time School Achieve Responsibility Rare Long Long Time First Before Late Relatively Everything Hierarchical Jobs Adolescence Proper Something Fact Reverence Go Germans Germany Get Graduate May Six Seniority Anyone Happens Start Here

Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French. Margaret MacMillan

World Unjust Had Particular Vengeful French Reparations Came George Were Versailles Germans Many Agree English-Speaking Treaty

It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail. Mark Oliphant

Job Though Hateful Knew Hot Because Were Trail Germans Essential

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. Marlene Dietrich

Speak Language Longer Germans Same

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. Martha Gellhorn

The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It's not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans. Matt Damon

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel. Michael Korda

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition. Michael Korda

Experience Those Punishments Criticize Invaded Had Occupation Opposition Ferocious German Germans Being Themselves Us Who Even Expressed Position

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's? Michael Korda

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes? Milos Forman

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. Mo Ibrahim

Today War You Situation Rules Frankly Out Security Security Council Fine Guys Voice Allies Council Had Driving Countries Occupied Were Won Germans Germany Represents Japan Who Europe Defeated

Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation. Olav Thon

War Wise Strong Decision Free Country Nationalism Say Must Scandinavian Would Easy Percent Had Occupation Sure Occupied Go Were Been Very Germans Norway Then Sweden

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st century, in a dramatically altered world with new heavyweights, and that Germany benefits from the continued integration of Europe in political, economic and societal ways. And, of course, that means the Germans will have to pay. Peer Steinbruck

People World Benefits Political Will Pay Dramatically Ways Both Economic New Altered Course Answer Continue Integration Germans Germany Form Heavyweight Explain Century Means EU Europe Societal

Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans. Richard Cohen

War People World Fear Country Our Extreme Intolerance Some Only Particular Periodic Were Foreigners Italians Germans Camps Refugees Placed Japanese Episodes Descent Internment World War World War II

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. Rick Atkinson

Army Debate First Spring Soldiers Churchill Minister About Impassioned Given Attack Winston Winston Churchill Argued Part Prime Prime Minister Over Italians Very Germans Green American Where Against Should Strategic British

Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made. Robin Leach

Vote Frustration World Made Live Out Would Having Point Fed Fed Up Had Voted Reached Leave Up Yes Won Germans Bunch Bureaucrats Being Where Breaking Against Theory Union Wars Boiling European European Union Belgium Britain Two World Wars

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest. Simon Rattle

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Great Battles Out Running Russia Russians Both Hot Advancing Tanks Were Cavalry South Germans Them Fuel Turned Across Fast

The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian people learned that imperialism was historically wrong, they set up a revolution in 1917 and overthrew imperialism at home. They then negotiated for peace separately with Germany. Sun Yat-sen

Home Peace Conflict People Revolution Respective Russian Russian People Russians No Point Point Imperialism Imperialistic Had Wrong Policies Learned Came Up Historically Germans Germany Then Separately Set

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season. Suzanne Fields

For fifty years, debates about French anti-Semitism mainly revolved around France's record during the Second World War, when the Vichy government collaborated with the Germans. Tom Reiss

War Government World Anti-Semitism Collaborated France Record About Mainly French Around Years Debates Germans Fifty Second World War Second World War

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. W. Averell Harriman

The former West Germany was a semi-sovereign political pygmy, protected by America's military might and with barely any foreign policy of its own. As a result, the country has no machinery or tradition of strategic thinking, and most Germans are loth to see their government take the lead. Zanny Minton Beddoes

Government Result Political Country Own Military Thinking Machinery See Take Lead Most Protected Policy Foreign Tradition Foreign Policy West Germans Germany America Any Former Might Barely Strategic

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