As a captive of history, Germany appears to be creating the conditions for a Europe wide meltdown.
The history of Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 illustrates the point.
If you look back into the history of Germany or Japan, or the United States, you typically find a period when the Magic Formula is in full effect.
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In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
Children's favourite Teletubbies won the best pre-school category and the best schools' factual award went to the drama documentary History File: Nazi Germany.
It is only the second time in the 55-year history of Eurovision that Germany has won, after Nicole's A Little Peace in 1982.
Despite Torres' stuttering form, the European champions have reached the World Cup semi-finals for the first time in their history and will meet Germany in Durban on Wednesday.
Although there is no history of minstrel shows in Germany, Mr Schendel says "blackface is part of a theatre tradition" in Germany.
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Such views stem, in part, from Germany's history.
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Germany has an infamous history of attacking bankers, lenders and traders, and going overboard to discredit the value of finance versus manufacturing.
As German governments have faced history bravely with contrite determination, Germany has won forgiveness and respect from the victimised countries in Europe...
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Whether you can use such a serious aspect of Germany's recent history for parody remains a matter of debate in the country, where the Nazi era is still quite a sensitive and painful topic for some to discuss.
Official Russian history asserts that Stalin believed that Germany, even if it were to emerge from war as a victor, would be so exhausted that it would be unable to wage war with the USSR for at least a decade.
By her own history, as a daughter of East Germany, Mrs Merkel is averse to division within Europe.
But thanks to Germany's size and history, when it pursues its own interests like any other normal nation, it can still send waves around the world.
It was one of the biggest far-right demonstrations in Germany's post-war history.
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"This shows both a level of commercialism and a certain betrayal of history and heritage that some fans both in Germany and in other countries find unacceptable, " said Chadwick.
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His own history, coupled with the recent planned abolition of Germany's tax on capital gains from share sales, suggest that he will take an aggressive line.
German banks, which are the biggest European Union lenders, will suffer the most through the defaults and bailouts, causing a depression in Germany like few have seen in their history.
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President Bush is now reading Michael Beschloss's excellent history "The Conquerors, " about how Franklin Roosevelt planned Germany's postwar future.
The next year in my 20th Century History class we were assigned a paper comparing the occupations of Germany and Japan after World War II with the contemporary occupation of Iraq.
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The high speed train crash in Germany is set to become one of the worst train disasters in European history.
Earlier, Katrin Wagner-Augustin of Germany lost out on her second attempt at becoming the second woman in Olympic history to win a gold medal at four consecutive Games after helping take silver in the women's kayak four (K4).
The truth is that Germany is a rehabilitated serial offender itself, having defaulted eight times in its relatively short history, according to Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
The problem is that the economic model that achieved the strongest and most consistent growth rate in reliably recorded history - a spending spree by consumers financed by borrowing from the great producing countries like China, Japan and Germany - is kaput.
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