Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Spaniards, English, Chinese carrying the German flag

Pages and pages again today in the German newspapers on the World Champions.

Yesterday LH 2014 flew low over the Fanmile, with of course special permission.  The Lufthansa Boeing 747 - Potsdam had changed the name of the company to Fanhansa.

In today's Berlin's Tagesspiegel Lars Spannagel writes:

"Again and again people who are carrying the German flag are speaking Spanish, English or Chinese.

"Was there ever a time when so many people with different nationalities identified in such a way with Germany? Perhaps on this day they want to feel a little German.

"And anyway, what does it mean, to feel German"

And that's the theme right through the Germany media, a sense that the country has at last come of age. This is the first time that a 'united Germany' has won the World Cup.

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