My only comment for the German attitude on the current desaster, is this: Insanity.
http://german.about.com/library/blgzauberl.htm
If madness rules and all hope for reason is lost, when lies get worshipped and telling the truth makes you an enemy of the state, when people do not know and do not want to know who they are and where they came from but nevertheless waste all resources to run ever faster, then all you can do in your life is to find something that is yours, carefully hide it from all world, and make that your refugium where you can hold out. Glad the one is who not only sees the need to find such a thing, but who actually finds it indeed.
I am so much done with this German people and society and state and EU and all that political BS. I'm sick of it. Europe will get what it deserves, and it won't be pretty. The self-deconstruction is home-made, the cause is megalomania and self-glorification, denial of economic realities and incompetence in understanding the nature of finances.
It all reminds of the building of the tower of Babel, and how it ended. It was a just end, and I do not feel tempted anymore to try to help avoiding this justice. After all, the various concepts of justice all include the implication that a certain consequence suffered by or brought upon the deliquent, is deserved.