This guy goes back to Munich, a town that is swarming with police, to call in an unpaid debt. To me that speaks of character.
National characteristics always outlive regime change.
When we would accomplish great things, the best policy is to work by an engine which the world never sees.
When the Romans could no longer find enough Romans to run their empire, Greatest empire the world has ever known, they started hiring foreigners. The rest is history. Decline and fall.