Berliners Say ‘Auf Weidersehen’ to Their Love for America

Travel Blog  •  Valerie Conners  •  11.03.08 | 3:21 PM ET

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After living for 16 years in Berlin—a city that once named its avenues after U.S. generals, schools after U.S. leaders and squares after U.S. cities—Reuters’ Germany correspondent Erik Kirschbaum now finds the pervasive admiration is largely gone. “It was hard to imagine a more pro-American city when I first moved here in 1993,” he writes in an essay for the news agency. “Yet the wind has changed and the love affair is over.”