Its actually the Germans dressed as the English, retribution for France planning on nuking them if the cold war got hot. Also it wa as all of Germany not just the Eastern half.
There is no* energy stored holding it together, just as there is no energy released when splitting a brick from the ground or splitting two magnets.
*The energy stored in the electrical repulsion of the protons is much much less than the energy required to break the strong force bonds amongst the protons and neutrons, so energy is consumed rather than released in a split.
You did great and it's the same message either way but, just for fun, your translation in French would be:
bonjour je m'appelle helium. j'suis un gaz noble.
(The literal translation would be "mon nom est helium" but people don't usually talk like that in French- just like the literal translation of "je m'appelle" is "I call myself" but people don't usually talk like that in English)
I translated photofunky.net as if it were French lol. "Photo funky" is how you would say "funky photo" in French. And net is a word in both languages too, so I just went with a different meaning for the joke