I once asked an old Japanese man why Japan decided to team up with Germany during WWII, and do you know what he told me? Well, you would if you speak Japanese, which I don’t.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, ‘See any familiar faces?’ She pointed out various kids and replied, ‘Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.’ For...

I asked my dad once if his high school teachers began treating kids differently during Vietnam, when they knew some of their students would be drafted and sent to war. I was curious because for...

Obviously, this was a great win for the U.S. team. We’re really pleased to qualify for Germany.

[And conversely, Woodrow Wilson finishes dead last.]Yes […] I think World War I was avoidable for the United States, certainly; we kind of look back on Germany as being evil (because of World War II),...

German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I...

All my life my dad felt this need to protect his kids from a war he fought, a war I believed could never reach out and touch us, could never hurt us—and yet he fed...

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ”God speed her!” She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

There is a recognition in Germany that they have to reduce the coziness between managers and the board.

We knew we had to play really well defensively, because Germany has a few very talented players. I was glad we stopped being nervous after the first minutes.

It wasn’t my choice to write this story…it was my responsibility.

The men and women who made up DoDDS Korea during the time I was there were an eclectic group to say the least, but as a group we were among the most talented, diverse, intelligent,...

This is a special moment for me and I’m looking forward to representing my country in Germany next month.

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.

I don’t see this as an indictment of Germany at all. I think the reason you’re seeing these cases is that Germany is so determined to get these people.

I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have...

Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier; to the past, when teaching was simpler and I could care about everyday...

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany was defeated.

I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

People have been focusing on the cost of subscriber acquisitions, especially in Germany in the first half, we think that will be less of an issue overall from now on.

There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.

In Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K., small businesses are now rivaling the U.S. in terms of PC use, with other countries showing great strides as well.

It is not based on the realities of Germany but rather refuses to face these realities.

I never wanted to sell him but there is a good player in Germany who I would have liked to have signed on loan but that isn’t going to happen now by the look of...

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

It’s hard to describe being an expatriate of sorts to people who’ve never lived overseas, but when you’re an American living in a geographically separated region within a country like Korea, you form bonds with...

The grand coalition should work out to be the best solution for Germany, … Germany will remain close to Russia but will no longer depend on the very personalized symbols of Schroeder’s politics. Germany under...

The sea was no stranger to the rock on the beach. The sea came often to the rock, rushing up wetly against its warm grey, and always as it swept away it took an infinitesimal...

Industrial production will strongly contribute to growth in the fourth quarter. Order backlogs have been rising in Germany. There’s more than sufficient evidence that one should reduce the amount of accommodation in monetary policy.

Wars, wars, wars’: reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain. In 1906 Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible for British colonies,...

On the one hand Germany has five million unemployed and on the other the employers want to prolong the working week for those newly employed.

In Berlin, I worked from home, were the only other women sat sedately on my bookshelves. They were good company, it has to be said, but a little quiet.

Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their massive collection of German fairy tales (revised and edited to reflect...

You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our...

So blieb [den individuellen Aufsteigern aus dem Arbeitermilieu] allein die Imitation der Verhaltensweisen und Ideologien von der mindestens heimlich bewunderten privilegierten Schicht, in die einzutreten schließlich Ziel des langen Weges war. Doch das Original mag...

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that...

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.

I’m in my classroom and I’m looking at this girl, but all I can see is my dad on the ground, in front of The Wall, telling the truth, finally—his knees drawn and his chest...

We have no quarrel with the German nation,One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.But, generation after generation,They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

It was during Elvis’ 18-month assignment in West Germany when he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, who was the daughter of an American Air Force captain’s daughter.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

We all lose people. We all have to live in the aftermath. It’s how we move forward that counts, but sometimes we are tethered to something in our past that won’t let us move forward.

Ahead in the distance we could see the main gate, but there was a sea of cars, none moving, people standing, milling around, waiting nervously, perhaps fearfully, as heavily armed MPs and military working dogs...

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

Enfim, por alguma razão se fazem as guerras, respondeu o avô, levantando as sobrancelhas. Só nas guerras é que os homens podem matar-se uns aos outros sem serem castigados.

Some 60 years has passed since the end of World War II, why should the people of Germany and Palestine pay now for a war in which the current generation was not involved.

Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you don’t need to talk a lot to teach well. You do need to care, though. Not so much about what...

I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five....

Schrempp is one of the last dinosaurs of Germany Inc.. He represents a strategy of acquiring assets and building empires that just didn’t work.