I know that I have posted this already in another thread, but nevertheless, it is still the current state of things and I can add two more historical photos.
I and many of us Germans must admit - gnashing our teeth, because many of us do not really like her - that our chancellor Angela Merkel was correct in her almost scientific predictions about the coronavirus and she is doing her job really acceptable and with efficiency, if not to say "good".
In a time, when most nations do no more judge or measure their politicians whether they do something good for their nations, but whether they do as few damage as possible to their nations, she has really almost done a phantastic job.
Probably the best you can tell about her being a politician is that she is not vain - moreover, you only have to look into her face and you will think, she does not even seem to know what vanity is!
She also warned us on March, 18 2020 very convincing in the most expressive manner, she is able to show.
Explanation: If you are not German, you will have to know that Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs Merkel have something in common: Both are probably the cold-bloodest and most self-controlled two women on this planet.
For example, Angela Merkel has ever had one standard position with her hands, the so-called "Merkel-Raute" to calm down every sign of emotions in her and even in her adversaries:
There have already been lots of psychological and satirical articles about this way to hold her hands all times, even the "Economist" interpreted how she is always holding her hands as a magical and dangerous ring: "One ring to rule them all ... !"
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Even her political enemies try to warn of this magic ("Mutti" is the German word for a rather superior "mum") and when you catch a "psycho" - moment in a photo with her in her government's car on the way to talk with persons like Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump or Vladimir Xyulo - wanted by criminal international court in The Hague, you sometimes begin to shiver, thinking about her "magical power" and her sometimes "evil look":
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Only once during the whole German history, Angela Merkel lost her magic ring and the resulting evil look for some minutes and therefore her famous self-control was gone for some moments:
It was the world championship in 2014: Germany wins the famous soccer game against Brazil 7 : 1.
Now, you can possibly imagine how extremely shocked we Germans must have been, when Angela Merkel held her very first "unprepared" TV speech to the German nation, talking on 18th of March about the future of Germany and the coronavirus, opening her hands like this right at the beginning of her speech, which is said to have been one of the best of her life:
Besondere Situationen erfordern besondere Maßnahmen: Zum ersten Mal in ihrer Amtszeit wendet sich Kanzlerin Merkel in einer Ansprache an die Menschen im Land.
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Some Germans got into a status of shock which they did not leave until today because they saw for the first time in their lifetimes, that Angela Merkel opened her hands relatively wide as if she would like to hug all Germans, which was an unthinkable and very frightening imagination for most of us Germans.
This was the moment, when we Germans knew that really hard times are ahead of us and we will have to prepare for a new kind of "war", although this word was not mentioned at all like in the surrounding neighbour countries.
Additionally, not so long ago, Mrs. Merkel was in the center of some pictures, which were really acquired by some museums of contemporary art because - according to the directors of these museums, such photos were of a quality like a Baroque painting by Rembrandt or Rubens:
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Der Direktor des Museums “Kunstpalast Düsseldorf“ zeigt uns sein Bild der Stunde und erklärt, warum Kunst nichts mit dem Preis zu tun hat.
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In any case, you should not be surprised if the German national flag will one day soon look like this and you will now know why: