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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...
...still did not have a majority in 1932, and the constitution permitted President Hindenburg to name any Chancellor he wished, authorizing him to rule by a series of presidential decrees. The first time Hindenburg summoned Hitler and asked him to support a conservative regime headed by a dapper courtier named Franz von Papen, Hitler demanded full power for himself; Hindenburg not only refused but dressed Hitler down for lacking "chivalry." In the last pre-Hitler elections in November of 1932, the Nazis lost strength, from 230 seats to 196. The party was an estimated $5 million in debt, unable...
Then in the first week of January, chances and hopes almost miraculously returned. Hindenburg was persuaded to try the idea of a new conservative coalition: Hitler as Chancellor, Papen as Vice Chancellor, with only two other Nazis in the Cabinet. "In this way," said the non-Nazi Minister of Economic Affairs, "we will box Hitler in." A fatal misjudgment. A month later, the Reichstag was in flames, Hitler was persuading Hindenburg to suspend civil liberties, and the most terrible chapter in 20th century history was about to open...
...hardly a newcomer on the German political scene. For the better part of 30 years, unification had been an article not of faith but of cant. Nobody took it seriously, nobody believed in it, and in the 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...
...comes to major news events, young people are less interested and informed than their elders. Respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were 20% less likely to say they had followed important news stories and 40% less likely to be able to identify a newsmaker like German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Two exceptions: they showed high interest in sports and issues that affected them directly, such as abortion...