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.”

Tags: Europe, Germany, Shrinking Planet

Valerie Conners

Valerie Conners is the senior producer and editor at World Hum.


3 Comments for Berliners Say ‘Auf Weidersehen’ to Their Love for America

pirano 11.04.08 | 10:37 AM ET

That love affair has largely faded in many places. As the writer alludes to, The Bush Administration should take much of the blame.

Ling 11.04.08 | 12:26 PM ET

No worries. They’ll start falling in love all over again after Obama becomes Prez. 200,000 of them were cheering him on in Berlin when he was there. That’s way more than any rally in the US.

Tera Gumbel 11.05.08 | 11:34 AM ET

Doesn’t matter whether they like us or not. As long as us Americans still love and believe in our country. Its still the best place to live in the world!!!
Rock on America!!

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