EUROPEAN EYE
May 2012
'I was fond of my father's old friend Günter Grass. I'd like to think he knew better'
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April 2012
‘German intellectuals are fascinated by outsiders, especially tortured rebels like Heinrich von Kleist’
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March 2012
‘Their grandparents fled the Nazis, their parents boycotted all things German, but their children are flocking to Berlin’
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January/February 2012
'Germans are obsessed with paying taxes - they are affronted by any state with little or not taxation - such as the British Virgin Islands'
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