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HitProf - 12:15 pm on May 19, 2003 (gmt 0)
I think the best strategy is to buy a .DE domain and put the German pages on it. It's OK to interlink between the English and German sites. Try to have some German sites link to the .DE-version.
In stead of Google having to guess the pages' language, you could use the language tag :)