When the Wall Came Down: Reactions to German Unification

by Harold James (Editor), Marla Stone (Editor)

Overview

When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138175723
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/18/2017
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Harold James, Marla Stone

Table of Contents

Introduction; Introduction; West Germany; A Ten-Point Program for Overcoming the Division of Germany and Europe; Berlin City Hall Speech; Berlin City Hall Speech; Ignoring the Chancelleries; The Silence of the Clerks; Don't Reunify Germany; Why We Are Not a Nation—And Why We Should Become One; The West Is Getting Wilder; The Phantom of the Nation; Rigmarole; Yet Again: German Identity—A Unified Nation of Angry DM-Burghers?; Reunification II: This Time, No Hobnail Boots; Uncomfortable Questions; The Two Plus Four Settlement; East Germany; “Awakening 89—New Forum”; A Plea to Get Involved in Our Own Cause; Declaration of New Forum on the Fortieth Anniversary of the GDR; Protest Demonstration at Berlin-Alexanderplatz; Notes on the Reactions of Progressive Forces to the Current Domestic Political Situation in the GDR; Pious Wishes, Open Questions; The Forty Year Itch; But Gysi Does Not Despair; Germany United and Divided; Why We Hoped; The Great Waiting, or The Freedom of the East; United States; Hidden Words; It's Already Happening; The German Revival; “NO” to German Reunification; Kohl at Gamp David; Ten for Germany; Uneasy About the Germans; A Plan for Europe; East German Requiem; The Attack on Christa Wolf; Germany: Power and the Left; United Kingdom; Beware, the Reich Is Reviving; Two Germanys Don't Add Up; West Germany's Green Imperialism; Germans Lack the Key to Their National Identity; What the PM Learnt About the Germans; Fawlty Logic; The Chequers Affair; Finding a New Weak Link; The New Germany; France; Toward a Confederal System; Police Logic Often Prevails Over Common Sense and Political Reason; A New Row Between an Old Couple; After 45 Years, the War Is Over; Mitterrand Sees Threat to His “Grand Design”; Germany in the Singular; Italy; Germany and History Have Taken a Leap; Changes in the European Equilibrium; I Do Not Fear German Nationalism; Israel; The Grand Appeasement; Unholy Trinity; Now We Shall be Reduced to Our Due Place Within German Priorities; East Germany, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us?; The Unification of the Germanys— A World Disaster; Czechoslovakia; Speech on 15 February 1990 on the occasion of the visit of President Richard von Weizsäcker to Prague; Poland; Both Partners and Competitors; Not Only for Ourselves; Attention—An Ambush!; Dignified Partnership; Opportunity Rather Than a Threat; This Is One Party I Think I'll Miss; Soviet Union; Political Diary: Germany, Victory or Defeat?; Germany and the ‘Soviet Issue'; At the USSR Supreme Soviet; Japan; A New Rendezvous with Destiny; Germany's New Start and Japan

Editorial Reviews

The most stimulating volume available in English in this still- volatile subject, providing a wide range of previously published articles from many countries and many perspectives that place in a long-range historical context the dramatic events of 1989-90 in Germany, culminating in the unification of the country. The countries represented are West Germany, East Germany, US, UK, France, Italy, Israel, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union, and Japan. Includes introductions by each of the editors, and a chronology. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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