So it happened. The Germans let loose. Eventually, they didn't win the World Cup, but they decided to bare it all anyway. And have fun like there was no tomorrow. Everybody did it in his or her own way. Within 90 minutes of the first match Germany played, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, went from being the queen of lifeless frowning to the people's princess of boundless jubilation. The rest of the country, apparently, watched, cheered and then got busy in the sack.
"More births nine months after such an event are surprising only at first sight," said Rolf Kilche, who is a head of a large birth clinic in Kassel. "The attitude to one's own body and the role of the hormones are often underestimated. If you're in a good mood, you are more likely to get pregnant." These days birth training courses in Germany are getting overbooked. Some hospitals are even planning to offer additional courses in March and April.

A few more World Cups and blackouts and Germany's demographic problems are solved.