It was pay back for all the French invasions of German-speaking principalities. The French weren’t surrender monkeys in the past, but rather very militaristic. The french militarism has gone away but the obnoxiousness continues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Meynier_-_Napoleon_in_Berlin.png
As an American of Polish descent, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I tend to side with the Germans.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Nice link.
Considering what the Poles suffered at the hands of the Germans?
