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Once all the Germans were warlike, and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then

They've said some very interesting things over the years, though.

If European integration were not to progress, Germany might be called upon, or tempted by its own security constraints, to try to effect the stabilization on its own and in the traditional way.

This is from a position paper written back in 1994 by Wolfgang Schäuble (everybody knows Germany's current financial minister by now) and Karl Lamers (president of NATO Parliamentary Assembly and deputy chairman of the Bundestag's Defense Committee). That's the kind of attitude that Germany's elites have towards the EU—it's theirs, and don't you dare try to take it away from them.

"If European integration were not to progress, Germany might be called upon, or tempted by its own security constraints, to try to effect the stabilization on its own and in the traditional way." - 1994 by Wolfgang Schäuble

How about this one from German Chancellor to the Bundestag just this week:

For Daily Express, Merkel means war

"We have a historical obligation: To protect by all means Europe’s unification process begun by our forefathers . . ."

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