It's that time when Germans dust off their national colors and fly them proudly. It's because of the 2008 European soccer championships, which you could argue is the biggest soccer tournament in the world next to the World Cup. The last time you would have seen so many German flags flying was back in 2006, when the country hosted the World Cup. My friend Marc Heydenreich reminded me the other day how important soccer is to Germans, in light of the schuld, or guilt, the country still confronts over WWII.

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