Bernard-Henri Levy: In defense of Angela Merkel

The advantage of the well-known cover of Der Spiegel that showed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of the Acropolis surrounded by Nazi officers is that it finally poses, in a way that cannot be dodged, the question of Germanophobia in Europe.

This has dragged on for quite some time. There were the demonstrations in Cyprus in March 2013, with the banners bearing caricatures of the German chancellor done up as Adolf Hitler.