Lee Hockstader: Sense of national decline may make rhyme of history hard to ignore in German election

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik
Amid talk that the country is the &sick man of Europe,& just one-tenth of Germans describe themselves as confident, with more describing
their mood as fearful, mistrustful, fatigued and sullen.