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From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/europe/11germany.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself
By NICHOLAS KULISH
September 10, 2010

German pride did not die after the country’s defeat in World War II. Instead, like Sleeping Beauty in the Brothers Grimm version of the folk tale, it only fell into a deep slumber. The country has now awakened, ready to celebrate its economic ingenuity, its cultural treasures and the unsullied stretches of its history.

As Germany embarks on this journey of self-discovery, the question is whether it will leave behind a European project which was built in no small measure on the nation’s postwar guilt and on its pocketbook.

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