Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cooper wonders "how we can know that the emotions and motivating forces behind the Third Reich are really dead." For one, most of the people who lived and shaped (and were shaped by) that time are now dead...
...know that the emotions and motivating forces behind the Third Reich are really dead...
...strongly affected, was both overjoyed and stunned. In Bonn members of the Bundestag, some with tears in their eyes, spontaneously rose and sang the national anthem. It was a rare demonstration in a country in which open displays of nationalistic sentiment have been frowned on since the Third Reich died...
...initial reforms, in any case, did not satisfy the opposition. "Dialogue is not the main course, it is just the appetizer," proclaimed Jens Reich, a molecular biologist and leader of New Forum, the major dissident organization. Founded only in September, it claims 200,000 adherents and has just been recognized by the government, which originally declared it illegal. The opposition pledged to keep up the pressure for a free press, free elections and a new constitution stripped of the clause granting the Communist Party a monopoly on power...
...Forum's ranks are filled with a wide variety of socialists, ranging from doctrinaire Marxists to Western-style Social Democrats, they share the goal of a liberalized East Germany, not a capitalist one. "We are not enemies of the German Democratic Republic or a threat to anyone," says Jens Reich, a molecular biologist who helped found New Forum. "We just want the country to get out of its present crisis...