This is a screenshot of http://www.tivi.de/fernsehen/logo/bildergalerie/08667/index.html from November 25 The link above will take you weekly to important news-making photos from Germany and all around the world.
Do you recognize the words under Chancellor Merkel's picture?
- Hilfe = Help; Rettungsdienstwagen = ambulance
- Anfang = beginning
- zurück = back
- vor = forward, ahead
- Ende = end
- Bild = picture, image
Aufgebaut = "Built-Up" (which doesn't seem like the best description for the picture.
Huch, da sieht man ja die Kanzlerin vor lauter Bäumen nicht.
Yikes, here we don't see the chancellor due to the sheer number of trees.
Angela Merkel bekommt am Donnerstag im Kanzleramt einen Weihnachtsbaum.
Angela Merkel receives on Thursday in the Chancellor's Office a Christmas Tree.
Den Mini-Baum gibt's einfach so dazu.
=Es gibt den Mini-Baum einfach so dazu.
=[roughly] There's the mini-tree simple as an add-on
Just as there are many holiday traditions at the White House which draw the attention of media and families across the country, Germany is just as concerned with how their leaders celebrate this time of the year. [And since Germans invented Christmas [=tongue-in-cheek], Bundeskanzlerin Merkel and President Obama likely share very similar traditions!]
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