We need to shake off the nostalgia of a centenary's forgetful pomp and look at the first world war through fresh eyes – German eyes.
Working with crayfish eyes, German neurobiologist Klaus Vogt found that these unpromising jelly boxes were silvered with a multilayer reflector coating.
Every evening I watched the bomber squadrons heading out over Somerleyton, and night after night, before I went to sleep, I pictured in my mind's eye the German cities going up in flames, the firestorms setting the heavens alight and the survivors rooting about in the ruins.
Later elephants' original tusks were added to the mount, as were eyes of German glass.
Eye-watering German wage restraint — German wages, adjusted for inflation, have barely risen in a decade — has boosted the price competitiveness of German-made goods within the currency union, while holding back German imports.
(American officials I spoke with, though troubled by the effects of the breach, rolled their eyes over German naïveté and hypocrisy, since the spying goes both ways).
And when the hale, gruff Marechal tries to say "Lotte has blue eyes" in German, you know that his attraction to Elsa has bloomed into romance — and her face tells us that his feeling is reciprocated.
Deutsche Bank, Allianz and ING are reportedly eyeing the German financial firm and a bid could top $16.1 billion.
I would tell them I'd started dating and having sex, and they would say, "So you're not asexual anymore?" I loved this young, over-sensitive, long eye-lashed German major, and I was all too happy to shed my virginity like a snakeskin so I could not be asexual.
Stacked nearby were boxes labeled "hands," "fingers," "wrists," "wigs," "German eyes," "French eyes," "American eyes".
So a Frenchman will run the show under the eye of a German chairman, while another German takes the reins at the most important part of the group.
