I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.
Germany's crimes were recent and of such a scale and depravity that, unless constantly faced, they will come to seem fictitious.
Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.