The necessary reduction of brown coal consumption is unfortunate for the nation's economy because it and anthracite are Germany's only significant natural resources. As of 1993, Germany was the world's largest producer of brown coal, mining nearly twice as much as the next greatest producer, Russia. Anthracite mining is also significant, and Germany was the world's ninth greatest producer of this substance in 1999.

Germany must import almost all the oil and gas that it uses...

That's overly simplistic and bordering on the naive, but I'll leave it there.

As you may have by now guessed, productivity is another obvious criteria. If you r smart enough to produce the same amount of goods in about half the time it would take a dumb competitor, u r obviously better off economically speaking.

Given that you are a notorious Germanophile, no wonder you state such a view.

Suffices to say that, for instance, the UK hardly sells anything tangible, yet attracts much more capital than Germany

That's a fallacy and a common misconception.

Nutella is the brand name of a hazelnut-based sweet spread created by the Italian company Ferrero in the 1940s. At the time, chocolate was very limited due to the Second World War. Nutella is now marketed in over 75 countries across the globe.

England are a good team thats why everyone wants to play them and on their day they are capable of beating anyone.

If anyone can explain how to prove if one economy is stronger than another in less than 1000 words on this forum I would be very surprised !

Can't we arrange some of the tax dollars we waste on welfare and various token gestures of culture appeasement to rig up a few Racial Love Boats headed for Liberia?

The name Liberia denotes "liberty" as free blacks and former slaves moved to Liberia in 1822, who founded the country in 1847 with the support of the Government of the United States creating a new ethnic group called the Americo-Liberians.[1] However, this introduction of a new ethnic mix compounded ethnic tensions with the sixteen other main ethnicities.[2]

Berlin is next :)

I have. Have you?

The first permanent settlers in Wroclaw were the Slavic Slezan tribe, who built a stronghold on the island of Ostrow Tumski sometime in the 9th century. (Ostrow Tumski is no longer an island since an arm of the river Odra was filled in 1810). Later this settlement was absorbed into Czech territory from where the name Wroclaw is thought to have been derived - after a Czech leader by the name of Wrocislaw. It wasn't until around 990AD that Prince Mieszko I, of the Piast dynasty and founder of the Polish state, seized control of Wroclaw and incorporated the region of Silesia into Poland.

Lucky bastards got to keep Berlin though.

Although I doubt if there were many Poles in Breslau at the end of WWII it was once a Polish city. No doubt about it

in 1336, the last of the Piast Princes died and the duchy of Silesia was annexed to Bohemia - despite the efforts of King Casimir III of Poland to hold onto it. His failure to do so meant that it was six hundred years until Wroclaw was returned to Polish hands.

Wroclaw, or Prezzla as it begins to be known as, continued to flourish under Bohemian rule and in 1387 gained admittance into the Hanseatic League, a powerful conglomeration of trading cities (think of it as a medieval version of G8!). The winds of change picked up again in the 16th century when King Ludwig died in battle, leaving no heirs, and the Bohemian estate elected Duke Ferdinand, of the Austrian line of Habsburgs, as King. Now Wroclaw was under Austrian rule.

Now its just Europe.

and most of you are just Europeans now. Good luck with that.

.Many top Nazis, including Hitler were part Jewish

this racial purity mythos seems to be a product of a certain German thinking

I find this interesting that you seems to be glad that the PM of Germany was in Kremlin's pocket. Cash behind people backs is known to improve chemistry among involved individuals.

That makes him a hero?

Good chemistry, what was so good about it?

If World War III is great chemistry BB, I'd hate to see bad chem

I hate this man, to think that they were thinking of repacing Alexander Hamilton's face on the $10 bill with his!! Hamilton - a soldier, lawyer, writer, philosopher and genius who was a main architect of the nascent American republic, and Reagan - a moronic Hollywood president!

not even to compare with Berlin rioting.

"...Xenophobia is a natural, positive attitude as people resist encroachment by aliens; societies strive to preserve their values against the onslaught of outsiders..."

we can agree that communism sucked.

Going back to Reagan. Germans have different view of him than Poles.

It is well known fact that Germans were the biggest denunciations in commie satellite countries.

Würstel if it wasn't for Reagan your Zonnies would be kept behind the wall for the next 1000 years.
You are not rebels, are you ?

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