Those who are not and who refuse to become yes-men do not become the – largely figurehead – president of the German Federal Republic. In fact, they don’t usually become anything at all worth worrying about. There are still remains of the Anglo-Saxon attempt after 1945 to change Germany into something different, but the battle has, I think, been lost; time will tell. N. B. I am not trying to suggest that the Nazis invented the concept of the yes-man, but just that the latter was extremely useful to them.