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...that has rattled the nation's self-confidence, Germans are again making ambitious plans for the future. Nobody is predicting a boom, but there are signs that Germany is ready to reassert itself as the economic engine of Europe. The economy is growing again, albeit slowly. The heart of Berlin, cut in two for 28 years by the infamous Wall, is now a showplace. The DZ Bank with its magnificent vaulted roof, the Jewish Museum with its lightning-bolt shape and the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz with its circus-tent glass roof are all signs of a country bouncing...
...first indications of a national turnaround are starting to show up in the numbers. The German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin in July revised its GDP growth estimate from 1.4% to 1.8% for this year and from 1.8% to 2.1% for next year. The Germans got a boost as economies in the U.S. and Asia began to grow again, and also from the run-up to E.U. enlargement, as exports to new members in Eastern Europe surged. "Germany remains an export machine that keeps running and running," says Holger Schmieding, an economist at Bank of America. "Despite the strong...
...Hitler's Bunker, by German historian Joachim Fest, and the autobiography of Traudl Junge, who was Hitler's secretary for the last three years of his life. And so the film presents a Hitler who is indifferent to the news that 50,000 soldiers have died in defense of Berlin, but also one who bounces children on his knee, strokes his dog Blondie and fumbles for his eyeglasses. The film doesn't address the murder of 6 million Jews except in a written postscript in the closing credits. "Is it permitted to show Adolf Hitler as a human being...
...party. More than two-thirds of PDS members are over 60, filled with nostalgia for the old East German regime. In fact, a worrisome "ostalgia" infects both east and west. According to a new survey in Stern magazine, 24% of voters in western Germany would like to see the Berlin Wall put back up. Bisky says his party's appeal can move west: "I want a socialist party in the Federal Republic of Germany." If opposition to Schröder continues to grow, Bisky's wish just may come true...
...West Bank and Gaza. Moreover, if the wall is completed as planned, long sections of it will run through the heartlands of the West Bank, isolating Palestinian villages, separating residents from their farms and fertile lands and even dividing Palestinian families. Praising this wall is like praising the Berlin Wall. AZZAM EL-HAIT Cairo