True - I was probably exaggerating. The Maastricht treaty limits were broken anyway. Germany’s debt is too high for comfort, but net payments to the EU and additional bailout debt for the PIGS certainly doesn’t help matters!
OTOH - again I’d have to agree - with a strong DM instead of the weaker euro Germany would have issues with its exports.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t...
Also, you must know that on every street corner in Warsaw there are monuments: "here xx number of partisans/citizens were murdered by Germans/Nazis" and the Poles remember
Anyway, so the guide was very animated and talking about how the Germans did this and the Germans did that (and to an impartial observer this was not overdone as well, the Germans DID do all of that and the museum tries to not vilify, even though it is difficult)
Anyway, so i was feeling sorry for the German 20-somethings, but after that, they told me that they KNEW about this -- they are taught each year in schools about what their country did -- and they are taught well, not as "you are slime for doing this" but "this is what we did, we must remember and never do this again" -- and I think their schooling has managed that fine line.