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15 March 2013
POLAND / GERMANY : Merkel's Polish Blood Pleases Warsaw.
Like this editor's heritage...German blood is mixed-in with Polish ancestry.
Hundreds of years of changing borders ensured that.
But...an author's new revelation that Chancellor Angela Merkel has direct Polish ancestry is delighting Warsaw.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/all-in-the-family-poles-pleased-to-learn-of-polish-heritage-of-angela-merkel-a-889207.html