The Germans are now much too nice for that.

It would take a miracle to get you out. The Germans have outlawed miracles.

Imshin, from Israel, discusses the relationship between Israelis and Germans and Poles in this post.

I asked French and German leaders, but never received any credible answer.

And it looked the other way when French and German banks recklessly enabled the Greek government s profligacy.

I fear that the French and Germans have now lost patience with the troublesome British, and are reluctant to cut a deal.

The islanders enjoyed safety at sea during World War II, as their merchant fleet sailed for both the Allied countries and Germany.

Indeed, the Belgians delayed the Germans and thus allowed the French armies to resist the German attacks which became the First Battle of the Marne.

To him, Jews, Germans, Czechs, or Hungarians were all his subjects, wherever they lived, from the smallest Galician shtetl to the grand capitals of Budapest or Vienna.

The Germans, in particular, have no stomach for military aggression, hence their reluctance in Afghanistan to take on anything but simple police tasks.

Yet French and German statesmen summoned the vision and the will to launch a bold experiment, one that has evolved into a single economy of 500 million people.

Like many African countries, it has diverse ethnic groups, which include the Afrikaner, Baster, Caprivian, Coloured, Damara, English, German, Herero, Kavango, Nama, Owambo, San and Tswana peoples.

If a large democracy, with a majority Muslim population, can join the EU, it will be easier to accept French, British, Dutch, or German Muslims as fellow Europeans, too.

Later, waves of European groups (Italians, Portuguese and Germans) migrated to Venezuela in the 20th century, influencing many aspects of Venezuelan life, including its culture, language, food, and music.

Some of the late 1970 s correction did follow from renewed intense US pressure for fiscal and monetary expansion, but that expansion caused inflationary pressure, which the Japanese and Germans then predictably blamed on the US.

Five years after the first bailout was issued, Greece remains in crisis. Animosity among Europeans is at an all time high, with Greeks and Germans, in particular, having descended to the point of moral grandstanding, mutual finger pointing, and open antagonism.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

According to the 2006 census, the country's largest self reported ethnic origin is Canadian (accounting for 32 of the population), followed by English (21 ), French (15.8 ), Scottish (15.1 ), Irish (13.9 ), German (10.2 ), Italian (4.6 ), Chinese (4.3 ), First Nations (4.0 ), Ukrainian (3.9 ), and Dutch (3.3 ).

What is needed, though, is a collective agreement on fiscal discipline, and a revival of the Stability and Growth Pact, which was unwisely abandoned ironically when the French and Germans found its rules too constraining.

Neither the French nor the Germans, obviously, want to contemplate any possibility of a return to the days when every generation they would kill each other over the question of which language should be spoken by the mayor of Strasbourg (or is it Strassburg?).

I fear that the French and Germans have now lost patience with the troublesome British, and are reluctant to cut a deal. And Euroskeptic British politicians see this as an opportunity to recast the UK s relationship with the EU indeed, for some, it means a chance to negotiate an exit.

In 1947, the United States Supreme Court held, in Clark v. Allen, that the Second World War did not abrogate the Treaty of 8 December 1923 granting certain reciprocal inheritance rights to American and German nationals regarding property situated in the other country.