Mocking Germans Adds Irish Insult to Banking Injury
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Irish politicians say jibes at Germans by some of the country’s former bankers undermine their case for securing help to cut the 64 billion-euro ($83 billion) bill for saving the financial system.
John Bowe, a former executive at the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank Corp., sang “Deutschland Ueber Alles” as the lender won German deposits on the back of a government guarantee, according to recordings of 2008 conversations that were published this week by the Irish Independent newspaper.