Word: germanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounds like the debate is indeed up for discussion inside Germany. Kohl's Bismarckian reference to a "German nation" shows that at least one West German is already convinced...
Bush and Gorbachev met for eight hours over two days during a time of extraordinary change in Eastern Europe. The upheaval was dramatized in the summit's final hours by the resignation of the East German leadership and the formation of a new government in Czechoslovakia that opposition leaders immediately denounced as too much like...
Czechoslovakia now joins the astonishing avalanche of change that is overtaking Eastern Europe. Poland was the first to move, electing a non- Communist government in August. In the past six weeks, upheavals have taken place in the Hungarian, East German and Bulgarian Communist parties. Nor were events in Prague the only remarkable developments that took place last week...
...heels of Cheney's announcement, word reached Washington that West German Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg has drawn plans for a 15% reduction in the Bundeswehr by 1991. Almost simultaneously, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the West German Foreign Minister, arrived in Washington and let it be known that any U.S. plans to modernize short-range nuclear weapons in Europe are out of the question now that the two Germanys are groping toward reconciliation. "No German government will discuss any weapons system that might result in nuclear weapons being targeted at Dresden and Leipzig," said a Genscher aide...
East Germany's gentle revolution turned a little nasty last week. The euphoria that had accompanied the crumbling of the Berlin Wall was followed by a wave of bitterness against the hard-line Communist leadership, under the now ousted Erich Honecker, that had stifled East German lives for two generations. Some of the anger also sprang from the realization, following the opening of borders to West Germany, that the East German economy was in worse shape than the citizenry had realized...