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Some ambivalence remains about the details of unification. Wiethoff is not sure the capital should be moved to Berlin. "Berlin reminds me of the great Nazi marches of the '30s and '40s, of Hitler's 'Do you want total war?' " he says. "Bonn stands for 40 years of tested democracy...
...other political questions, such anxieties seem almost irrational. Germany was mostly united back in 1949, when the U.S., British and French zones of military occupation -- 70% of Germany's 1945 territory and 72% of the nation's population -- were merged to form the Federal Republic, with its headquarters in Bonn. Economically, the figures are even more impressive: the East German economy that now has been joined to that of West Germany forms only one-tenth of the combined total. During those past 40 years, the world witnessed cruel wars in Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Nicaragua, but the mostly...
...remain on how to raise the East to the West's level of prosperity and how to smooth the joining of different economic and social systems. There are arguments about where the new capital should be: in the imperial -- and Nazi -- capital of Berlin or in democratic but provincial Bonn...
Whatever the obstacles, the conservative governments of Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn and Prime Minister Lothar de Maziere in East Berlin are pressing full speed ahead. Kohl in particular is determined, as he puts it, "not to miss the unification train, which may not come another time." With a large majority in both Germanys supporting merger -- even though there are some reservations as to speed and cost -- the Chancellor is planning to hold all- German elections in early December...
...West at least, there was hardly anyone who really wanted it. One Chancellor after another talked about it absentmindedly, rather like an old lady reciting her Rosary, a performance that became even more embarrassing when the red carpet was rolled out during Erich Honecker's state visit in Bonn...