What are you reading now?

[Eva Elisabeth]

That's interesting, Roger! Jörg Nagler is the leading CW and Lincoln expert in Germany. (He exactly looks like John Hay, BTW.)

For Germany it's sure true that Abraham Lincoln was and is primarily a symbol and role model as a unifyer, and especially the "house-divided" theme and the Gettysburg address has frequently been quoted by several politicians in different eras.