‘Friends for life …’ In 1962, in the satirical East German journal Eulenspiegel, cartoonist Harri Parschau deplores the reasons for the policy of approximation between France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (on the left) seems keen to get his hands on France’s atomic arsenal, while French President Charles de Gaulle (on the right) is only interested in West Germany’s vast industrial resources.