It was only the third time in German post-war history that a presidential election has gone to a third round.
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Every night, for months, the television showed Euro-angular German stockbrokers, post-frat looking American traders, frantically disheveled Asian commodities brokers all looking up at tickers the home audience couldn't see, staring blankly upward as if they were waiting for Superman to save them.
Soon after D-Day in 1944, while still a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in WWII to be awarded the VC for his leadership in an assault on a German machine-gun post in Normandy.
At just 25 and while serving as a lieutenant, he became the first Welshman in World War II to be awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest honour for gallantry, for an assault on a German machine-gun post in northern France.
The clueless Chancellor should take a cue from the now-forgotten Ludwig Erhard, architect of the post-WWII German economic miracle.
All post-war German history has been about doing right by European countries that once suffered under the Nazi jackboot.
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German newspapers have been quick to post prominent commentaries on Cameron's speech on their websites.
The post-war West German leaders took the insights of Austrian economics and applied them once again.
Frank Appel, chief executive of German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, took charge of the company in February 2008 after his predecessor Klaus Zumwinkel stepped down following a personal tax evasion scandal.
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In 1983, he became a Green Party member of parliament, and two years later he was the first German Green to take up a government post, as environment minister in Hesse, around Frankfurt.
According to a Washington Post report, a former German minister was informed by the former US ambassador that the US had made this mistake in kidnapping, and according to the report the ambassador had asked the former German minister to keep it quiet in order to prevent public knowledge of the CIA rendition program.
It is not clear who, if anyone, will be interested in buying shares in DB ML. Given the poor performance of shares in other privatised firms, such as Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom, the German public may stay away.
The German coach, who was recently appointed to the post, made his remarks after watching two games played last weekend.
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German midfielder Michael Ballack hit the outside of the post with a fine free-kick, while Hull's Kevin Kilbane hit the woodwork with a header.
The German occupation had destroyed trust between Frenchmen, and in post-war France loyalty was especially valued.
But questions will be asked as to how the German international was allowed to ghost in unmarked at the far post to score the opener.
She has also been encouraging the development of the German real estate market, which suffered from a construction overhang post-reunification but is now seeing interest from hedge funds.
Once German intransigence became clear - as it did overnight (see my post of yesterday evening) - EADS and BAE had no option but to call the whole thing off.
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, who was determined to win the post which has normally been held by a Frenchman, was then forced to turn to Mr Koehler, who had served under his predecessor, the Conservative Helmut Kohl.
Frits Bolkestein, the single-market commissioner (a post that Britain covets), has said that Franco-German calls for a return of industrial policy made him feel he was living in a 1970s time-warp.
Federico Lombardi, has acknowledged Benedict's post-retirement decline but insists the 86-year-old German isn't suffering from any ailment and is just old.
According to a Washington Post article in 1993, the family lived in a cellar after a German bomber blew up their apartment.
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During the entire post-World War II era, the U.S.-German relationship has made a vital contribution to the growth of democratic institutions and to Germany's reconciliation with and integration into the West.
But the historical post-war zeal combined with sheer hard work that have made the Franco-German couple endure so far can no longer be taken for granted.
"Madam chancellor, not since Konrad Adenauer has a German chancellor been so humiliated in Europe, " he said, referring to West Germany's first post-war chancellor.
Rather than a repressed silence about German suffering in the years following the war, there is almost nothing else in the media coverage of the early post-war decades.
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