Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The recent events were clearly not an outpouring of nationalism, but a celebration of freedom. The destruction of the wall was not seen as the sign of regaining German strength (after all, it is Mikhail Gorbachev, not Germany, who was largely responsible for the dramatic changes), but the reunion with...
3. 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.
Moreover, where should the Germans of 1989 get these racist, anti-Semitic, and nationalistic feelings in the first place? After World War II, those who supported Hitler kept their mouths shut, for obvious reasons, and were hardly able to pass on their horrific heritage. In school, at home, and in...
I am wondering if Cooper thinks that there is something in the genetic make-up of a German which makes him or her an evil person who is unable to learn from the past. Otherwise, he could hardly fear the resurgence of a Fourth Reich even if Germany were to...
In the United States today, over half the eligible voters no longer vote for President and far fewer vote in off-year state and local elections. In fact, the United States now has the lowest voter turnout of any industrialized nation in the world, with the vast majority of poor...