买机场的中国人让德国人另眼相看

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安静 (reporter byline), 买机场的中国人让德国人另眼相看. , July 3, 2016.
http://www.dw.com/zh/%E4%B9%B0%E ... E7%9C%8B/a-19368300
(summary: "就在中企在德大举收购引发担忧、欲购法兰克福-哈恩机场的中国公司遭到质疑之际，一部讲述中国商人收购帕希姆机场的纪录片让德国人认识了不一样的中国人")

Note:
(a) Parchim International Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchim_International_Airport
("an airport in North-eastern Germany, serving Schwerin and Parchim in the west of [state of] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Originally an air force base, it saw scheduled cargo flights operated by Air Cargo Germany in 2009 and 2010. A Chinese investor wants to extend logistic operations, and from 2016 on offers flights to and from China")
(i) Parchim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchim
(ii) Carol Gohsman Bowen, Schwerin, The Capital City. GenWebsite for Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany, undated
http://www.emecklenburg.de/Mecklenburg/en/schwer.htm
("located about 50 miles south of the Baltic Sea in the Mecklenburg Lake District. It is surrounded by ten lakes. The largest of these lakes is the Schweriner See (Lake Schwerin). * * * Schwerin's history started over 800 years ago and this makes it the oldest city in Mecklenburg. It was founded in the 12th century by Henry the Lion. The Slavic tribe that had occupied the region called it "Zuarin,' meaning "region of many animals,' and this name stayed with it'')
(A) The "Gen" in "GenWebsite" stands for genealogy.
(B) Henry the Lion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Lion
(1129/1131 – 1195; in present-day Germany)
(iii) Parchim is southeast of Schwerin, by air distance of 25 miles.
http://www.distance.to/Parchim/Schwerin

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(b) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(Capital  Schwerin; Vorpommern, literally Fore-Pomerania, is the smaller, western part of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania; the eastern part became part of Poland after the end of World War II)

"The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named 'Mikilenburg' (Old Saxon: 'big castle')."  en.wikipedia.org

(c) History of Pomerania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pomerania
(The name Pomerania comes from the Slavic po more, which means Land at the Sea; Most of Western Pomerania (Vorpommern) today forms the eastern part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Federal Republic of Germany)

The last map carries a caption: "Historical [Prussian] Province of Pomerania [1815–1945] (yellow) superimposed on modern Germany (red) and Poland (blue)."
(i) "Pomerania, Polish Pomorze, German Pommern (from Slavic po, 'along,' and morze, 'sea')."  Encyclopaedia Britannica
(ii) German Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org) has a page each for Vorommern and Hinterpommern.   Instead, en.wikipedia.org has a page each for "Western Pomerania" and "Farther Pomerania."
(iii) German English dictionary:
* vor- (prefix; etymology: "cognate with English fore-"): "pre- (denotes primarily that something is before or in front of another thing or higher in a hierarchy)"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vor-
* hinter- (prefix; from Modern German adverb hinten with the same meanings): "after- ; back- "
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hinter-
* Messer (noun neuter): "knife"

(d) "2007年，中国商人庞玉良以3000万欧元现金并追加7000万欧元投资的条件买下位于德国北方什未林市的（Schwerin）一座旧军用机场 [1943-1945, followed by Soviet use during Cold War]"
(i) Brett Neely, Chinese Cargo Firm Buys German Airport. NPR, July 25, 2008
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92875207
("The Nazis based the world's first jetfighters here [Parchim]")

There is no need to read the rest of this NPR report.
(ii) Messerschmitt Me 262
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262
(Manufacturer  Messerschmitt ['named after its chief designer Willy Messerschmitt']; Introduction April 1944)
(iii) For the definition of "Messer," see (c)(iii).