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Hi -- I am fluent in German, but without knowing what you're using to sign in (please do not reveal your actual password!), it's hard to know what the problem is.
Is this a password you've used before on the German eBay site? Is it an English word or words, or just a random string of characters such as the ones that are generated by eBay itself?
German uses the Roman alphabet, with umlauts (double-dots above certain vowels) and the occasional "scharfes S" (a sort of squiggly-looking character like a cursive capital "B") thrown in. Otherwise it is the same alphabet as English, so any ordinary English word should work.
So unless your password is an actual German word that requires an umlaut in order to be recognized as the password (e.g. the old VW slogan "Fahrvernügen"), I don't know why you'd be having trouble. If your password is in fact a German word with an umlaut, then you'll have to switch to the German keyboard to enter it. (These keyboards are provided as options on most Microsoft operating systems -- they are electronic only, i.e. your physical keyboard remains the same but the characters the keys create differ. I have 6 MS keyboards set up on my laptop).
It's also possible that if your password is on of those random, automatically-generated password (as many are these days on .ca and .com), it may be site-specific. Or eBay.de may have its own system for generating auto-passwords that won't recognize a "foreign" machine-made password.
My suggestion: change your password on eBay.ca to a regular English word or word string, and try the .de site again.
BTW, for someone who speaks German, that gobbledegook paragraph that was posted above is a SCREAM!! 
I actually started trying to read it until I realized: say what?? This ain't German. LOL -- hilarious, wherever it came from.
