the fact that norway this year finally relented and allowed german military forces to be part of annual western alliance maneuvers for the first time since the war ; that officials of european community nations have given up guilt-tripping their german colleagues as a way to leverage more money , and that a recent sampling of french opinion found that if a daughter were to marry a non- frenchman , the overwhelming majority of families would prefer a german son-in-law -- all this reflects the healing process .