Germany's de facto loans to these banks is equivalent to around 30% of its GDP (this figure is based on the assumption that, in a worst case of a eurozone breakup, Germany was unable to share the cost with other eurozone members on the basis of an official burden-sharing formula).
Interestingly, neither the New York Fed nor the Banque de France charge Germany to store its gold.
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When France was defeated by Germany in 1940 Maurice Couve de Murville at first worked for the puppet government in Vichy.
The CrossBlue was designed in Germany under the leadership of Walter de Silva (Head of Design, Volkswagen Group) and Klaus Bischoff (Head of Design, Volkswagen Brand), in close coordination with Volkswagen of America.
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On 22 January 1963 General de Gaulle of France and Germany's Konrad Adenauer signed the Elysee Treaty in Paris.
But both showed good cheer at the Stade de France on Wednesday, where Germany won 2-1.
The economic benefits Germany reaps from the current situation imposes a de facto overvalued currency on most other European countries, hampering their exports.
It was formally in occupation in West Germany and Japan, and it was the de facto power in a variety of places from Dutch Indonesia to the Belgian Congo, from most of Latin America to much of Indochina.
First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.
It faces competition from Allied Signal and International Fuel Cells (part of United Technologies Group) in America, De Nora in Italy and Siemens in Germany.
One oft-cited explanation for this is Germany's federal system, which gives the opposition a de facto veto over tax changes.
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His other decorations include Germany's Federal Order of Merit and France's Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.
Gen de Gaulle described Europe as "a coach and horses, with Germany the horse and France the coachman".
Solange Guo Chatelard is a PhD candidate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and an associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.
She opted for an Oscar de la Renta floral gown for a White House state dinner last year honoring Germany (Rihanna wore a version of the same gown to the 2011 Brit Awards).
The www.wanderbares-deutschland.de is an excellent resource - it features comprehensive information on dozens of walking trails throughout Germany.
The calculation for Angela Merkel and for Germany has to be this: If all of Germany's economic might were thrown behind saving the euro would it be sufficient or could it end up de-railing the German economy?
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