The Americans who, during a long Cold War, helped to defend a free Germany.
Europe has similarly daft subsidy regimes with equally perverse consequences the German subsidy for solar energy, for instance, which has diverted the world's solar-cell production to sun-free Germany, thus raising the price in sunny countries where it might be usefully employed.
But without strict conditions on profligate states and the imposition of losses on reckless creditors, all are taking a free ride on Germany.
Many of the most successful countries, despite having ample government services, have left capital gains tax free, including Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, and, until 1990, Japan.
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They argue that few of the Liberals' sister parties who have become junior partners in coalitions have benefited thereby witness the Free Democrats in Germany, now on the verge of losing their representation in the Bundestag altogether.
In his entire speech, Obama never once mentions that the United States led a coalition of free peoples against Germany, Italy and Japan, nor does he ever discuss the obligation of sacrifice to prevent a recurrence.
This could leave the Free Democrats, Germany's liberal party, holding the balance of power, though the latest polls suggest they may not be able to muster the minimum 5% required to get them into the city-state's parliament.
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Pollsters say that the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals, have become more popular than the Greens, who are in ruling coalitions both in the federal government in Berlin and in the state one in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia's capital.
The city-state's ruling Social Democrats, who also run Germany as a whole, and the Democratic Socialists, as the ex-communists now call themselves, are deep into negotiations to run the capital together, after the breakdown of the Social Democrats' talks with both the Greens and the Free Democrats, Germany's liberals.
BASF's name or label now adorns things like wrinkle-free bed linens in Germany and a household cleaning product in Brazil.
Bush pushed for a Germany whole, free and integrated into NATO from the outset.
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Germany's Free Democrats have adopted both parts of liberalism: they believe in both civil liberties and the free market.
The British deal on Lady Ashton meant that centre-right governments, led by France and Germany, were free to impose their favoured candidate, Mr Van Rompuy.
But Greece claims that it has never been repaid for a loan of 476 million reichsmarks that the Greek National Bank was forced to hand to Nazi Germany interest-free during the war.
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The final dangerous moment for Wales came with eight minutes remaining when Germany were awarded a free-kick on the edge of the Wales penalty area.
In the 20th century, free nations confronted and defeated Nazi Germany.
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German prosecutors said Uri Brodsky was free to travel while judicial proceedings in Germany continued.
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The average monthly subscription fee in Europe is decreasing yearly and some ISPs in Germany and Sweden are offering free Internet access.
Starting next month, Pinger will introduce its free SMS service for iOS and Android in Germany.
She's a former physicist from East Germany and a firm believer in free-market capitalism.
Likely to lose his absolute majority, Mr Koch hopes to govern with Germany's liberals, the Free Democrats.
Is it acceptable, he asks, that Spain must borrow at 6% while Germany can raise money almost for free?
Given half an excuse, he would happily seek an alternative coalition with the Christian Democrats or, rather less happily, with Germany's liberals, the Free Democrats.
He became the 2010 World Cup's joint leading scorer with a spectacular volley on Saturday before striking the bar from a free-kick in the dying moments of Germany's 3-2 victory.
Fourth seed Caroline Wozniacki played for the second consecutive day but showed no ill-effects with a trouble-free 6-3 6-1 win over Germany's Julia Goerges.
But recorded cases of the disease are continuing to appear, including in countries such as Germany and Spain that had considered themselves free of the disease.
The need to develop carbon-free energy sources is greater than ever, and Germany is leading the charge, breaking all previous solar installation records in 2012.
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If Slovakia remains on its reform path, it could become the domino that pushes the rest of the EU, particularly "Old Europe" nations Germany and France, toward a more free-enterprise, entrepreneurial era.
Or they could join forces with Germany's small liberal party, the Free Democrats.
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