Word: unificationism
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Now, at Niehues' table, the subject is unification. Those among them who visited the old East Germany remember, as Giersiepen recalls, the "iron faces of the Vopos ((people's police))." When the Wall went up in 1961, they wondered, fleetingly, whether the West would intervene, whether war might even come...
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...
Several times in the past decade, TIME's worldwide editions have devoted entire issues to a single, very compelling topic: the Soviet Union in 1980, Japan in 1983, immigrants to the U.S. in 1985 and the Soviet Union again in 1989. Two weeks ago, for the first time, we prepared...
The 16 million citizens of East Germany will be $70 billion richer this week, at least on paper. Even before the day of reckoning this past Sunday, crowds had been standing patiently in line to complete the paper work for converting their ostmark savings into deutsche marks at a rate...
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...