Timothy Garton Ash writing in the Guardian. Warning: compound noun!
The biggest German brake of all is a state of mind – a curious mix of being at once too comfortable and too fearful. As a lover of German compound nouns, I was delighted to see the German political scientist Karl-Rudolf Korte capture this brilliantly by characterising Germany as a Wolferwartungsland (a country constantly expecting the wolf to arrive). But today the wolves are actually there: two big ones at the door, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and one small one, the AfD, already inside the hen coop. [emphasis added]
To see off those wolves, Germans need one quality above all: courage. Let them take advice from their national poet. “Property lost,” wrote Goethe, “something lost! … Honour lost, much lost! … Courage lost, everything lost!”