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    European champions

    Oct 29, 2020 4 minutes
    Michael Henderson

    “NOTES FROM A Grown-Up Country”, the sub-title of this affectionate, scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany, is clearly intended to be provocative, and two cheers for that. There are still British people (not “Brits”, please, Herr Kampfner, it suggests self-abasement) who have not adjusted to the fact that Germany is the leading nation in Europe, or that modern Germans, having come to terms with the monstrous inheritance bequeathed by previous generations, are healthier, wealthier and better educated than those who supposedly “won” the last conflict.

    Walk around Munich for an hour, and try to consider how Manchester, self-styled

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