Haig's rise was fuelled by an all-consuming sense of patriotic duty.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
Do you honestly believe that these good gentlemen are backing some kind of a sense of a patriotic duty and you don't even asked them about the worth.
The German government is no smarter,just less blatant: it has been twisting arms at Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank to do their patriotic duty and step in, at least for a while.