This is rather poetic justice....Germany is leveled in WWII...even the leveling...didn't stop Germans from being who Germans are...highly successful people...now Europe is looking to Germany, of all places, to pull their sorry A$$'s out of the financial hole they've made for themselves.
Even more poetic is the fact that Germany tried to take over Europe four times in the last 200 years, and lost every time. Now they're being offered to buy it, cheap, because the current owners can't afford it, and they're declining.
I'm sure the Kaiser is rolling in his grave at this. ;-)