According to the New York Times, the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl once said that Germans were “so afraid to laugh that they would hide in the basement to do it.” The Times related Kohl’s ...

There is not much to laugh about in Germany these days, everyone from its bakers to its bankers will readily tell you, citing with long faces their chronic economic problems and how they are suffering ...

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