In 1938, the Munich agreement was signed between France, Germany, Britain and Italy in which the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, was surrendered to Nazi Germany.
Despite ample opportunity to leave, Heisenberg chose to remain in Germany and ran the German atomic-bomb programme.
Set in East Germany in 1980, this German-language drama stars Nina Hoss in the title role of a physician who, after her banishment to a small-town clinic, is as icy toward her colleagues as she is caring and compassionate toward her patients.
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In Grossbasel, the Altstadt (Old Town) charms with its 15th- and 16th-century architecture, including many half-timbered houses, a common architectural style in the German-speaking areas (of both Switzerland and Germany) north of the Alps.
"It's not a diktat as such, but we can't just accept the ideas of France and Germany, " he said of the Franco-German pact.
An unfortunate effect of the row was to overshadow another warning from Mr Monti: Germany was stoking anti-European and anti-German sentiment by refusing to help bring down Italian interest rates.
And when the Wall finally crumbled and Germany was reunited, she broke barriers of her own, becoming the first East German -- and the first woman -- to become chancellor of Germany.
The Free Democrats, backed by a few of Mr Kohl's Christian Democrats, want to change the law so that children of long-time foreign residents in Germany can have German citizenship, as well as their parents', right from birth.
Having grown up in East Germany, Ms Merkel is a latecomer to German-Jewish rapprochement.
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Germany is now pointing out that many overestimated German-led back stops, and they were too profligate in spending and running deficits.
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On the contrary, says Mr Ibrahimi, Albanians can be spread between several countries, just as German-speakers are split between Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Germany says it will help Spain to launch German-style apprenticeships for its young people, half of whom are unemployed because of the debt crisis.
In return for issuing euro bonds or perhaps granting countries access to ECB bond purchases, Germany would require those nations to live by German-approved fiscal rules.
Germany banned naked short selling of credit-default swaps, German Treasury bonds, and the stocks of major German financial firms.
French-German relations require their biggest rethink since Germany ceded the leadership of Europe to France after the second world war.
With its parliament already chafing at German-financed transfers to Greece, Germany wants that gap to be filled by deeper cuts in the Greek budget.
D-mark would hurt German exports, just when Germany's economy is in the doldrums.
At that very time Martin Vogel was guarding a German prisoner-of-war camp inside Germany, under the mandates of international law.
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The sweeper returned to Germany and continued to perform - going on to be voted 1999 German footballer of the year.
In March, Damstadt, Germany-based Merck set out on its own hostile bid for German neighbor Schering, bypassing Serono's "For Sale" sign.
Prices do too: many grades of steel sell in Denmark for some 15% more than in Germany while, in turn, German prices are often 8-12% higher than those in France.
In March, Damstadt, Germany-based Merck set out on its own hostile bid for German neighbor Schering (nyse: SHR - news - people ), bypassing Serono's "For Sale" sign.
The sales of American-based affiliates of German companies are five times bigger than Germany's exports to America.
And since the mid-1980s wages in Germany have been rising faster than productivity, making German exports less competitive.
Unemployment is high in Germany and there have been difficulties integrating the often large families of ethnic-German immigrants, many of whom speak little German.
But it is not just the arrival of a less ardent European as Germany's new leader that has put a spanner in the Franco-German motor.
The most shocking act of brutality occurred in Lens when German hooligans set upon a French policeman prior to the Germany- Yugoslavia match, beating him into a coma.
Germany sold 4.17 billion euros of negative interest rate two-year German bonds drew the strongest demand since a January sale of a similar maturity as investors sought new places to hide their money, even if it means losing some of it.
"The US is the most important partner for Germany, apart from the EU, " said Karsten Voigt, the German-American co-ordinator at the German foreign ministry.
Here, indeed, lies the big danger to American-German relations: that America may expect too much help from Germany, whether on Iran, the Balkans or Russia.
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