Not a man nor a mouse survived – thrilling, don’t you think?

What this week's action in the Bundestag has to do with a classic 1980s war film.

Dear Reader,

After comparing the current state of German politics to a free bar where the next punch could be swung from any angle in my last newsletter, the opening scene of Das Boot popped into my head. Green-eared war reporter Leutnant Werner arrives at the German naval base in La Rochelle late in the evening ahead of an assignment to write a propagan…