1. Prepared with the assistance of Nicola Mathieson. Europe in the 21st century: Power, Leadership and Crisis GERMAN LEADERSHIP TODAY By Michael Pearce SC Honorary Consul-General for Germany in Melbourne

2. The Holy Roman Empire: forerunner to the European Union? Source: http://cobalt.rocky.edu/~jordan.baker/titlepage.html

3. Bismarck Reich 1870 Source:http://pages.uoregon.edu/dluebke/Germany342/342-3Week01.html

4. Weimar Republic Source: http://wmmbb.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/weimar-republic-lessons/

5. Defeated, ruined, occupied, shamed http://thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/arb eit_macht_fr.html

6. West and East Germany 1949 Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East-West-Germany-October_1949-July_1952.svg

7. Germany today: 16 Länder Source: http://www.germany-insider-facts.com/german-states.html

8. The Reichstag Source: http://www.viator.com/photos/Berlin/Reichstag/d488-625/1346125

9. Angela Merkel Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/angela-merkel-issues-bailout-warning-1129510

10. Joachim Gauck Source: http://www.bundespraesident.de/EN/TheGermanFederalPresidents/JoachimGauck/Joachim-Gauck-node.html

11. Vergangenheitsbewältigung Source: http://thedonovan.com/archives/2009/02/arbeit_macht_fr.html

12. Fritz Stern “To seek freedom in defiance of the state is not part of the German tradition, as it is of the English, Dutch, French and American traditions.” Stern, Fritz. "Freedom and its Discontents". Foreign Affairs 72, no. 4 (1993): 108-125. www.jstor.orgwww.jstor.org

13. Life in the East The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006) Source: http://www.thatfilmguy.net/the-lives-of-others-2006/

14. Green Germany Source: http://windturbinezone.com/wind-technology/wind-farms Source: http://keepingupwiththecotes.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/german-idiosyncrasies-second-edition.html

15. The modern face of Germany Philipp Rösler: Heart surgeon and Federal Minister for Health Source: http://www.lookatvietnam.com/2009/11/german-embassy-heads-search-for-vietnamese-german-ministers-roots.html

16. German leadership: Adenauer and Kohl Konrad Adenauer Helmut Kohl Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F078072-0004,_Konrad_Adenauer.jpg http://www.andydobson.net/german_history/helmut_kohl.htm

17. Johannes Gross “The word ‘Realpolitik’ has been lost in the German language and will no longer be needed; it lives on in other languages as a foreign expression. In place of it we urgently need the word ‘Moralpolitik’ in order to label that which we, out of responsibility, refrain from doing.” “Notizbuch Johannes Gross. Neueste Folge”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, Feb 26 1993 p 10.

18. A united Germany, a unified Europe Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/09/portugal-eu-imf-aid