\begin{document}
\hyphenated{%
Wir sagten ihm: »Erzähle uns doch, warum du kein Sirbadj essen willst?«
Der Hauswirt aber sagte ihm: »Ich schwöre bei diesem und jenem, du musst
Sirbadj essen.« Er erwiderte dann: »Es gibt keinen Schutz und keine  
Macht,
außer bei Gott dem Erhabenen; wenn es sein muss, so will ich meine Hand
vierzigmal mit Wasser, vierzigmal mit Seife und vierzigmal mit Salzen,  
im
ganzen hundertundzwanzigmal waschen.«%
}
\end{document}

Here the Frech quotes are used in a German manner, i.e., » starts the  
quotation and « ends it. Maybe it's better when this mode tries to  
determine which quotation mark comes first instead of assuming that «  
always comes first, followed by a final ». http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark,_non-English_usage 
  gives some explanation and examples.


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Greetings

  Pete

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.