Guests arriving for the initiation of a new German Embassy building in Paris, 1968
Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in 1961
François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl in 1987
50th
anniversary of reconciliation, 8 July 2012: Dr. Angela Merkel (left), Federal
Chancellor of Germany, with François Hollande (right), President of the French
Republic.
Relations with Switzerland
Germans nowadays are appreciated as highly-skilled labour and academics,
but are not always given a warm welcome by the Swiss. History, language
and politics have all affected the two nations’ changing relationship
in the past century.
Not always hostile: a German flag hoisted alongside a Swiss one to welcome a visiting sports team
Expatriate Germans Gerald Rinke, Sandra Günter and Ulf Schiller
