The Wall after the Wall: On the Continuing Division of Germany and the Remaking of Political Culture
1993; City University of New York; Volume: 26; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/422173
ISSN2151-6227
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoWhen the wall came down on November 9, 1989, Willy Brandt commented: Now grows together what belongs together. What followed in the eleven months after the fall of the wall was anything but a growing together. A breathtaking process of unification ended the separation of Germany almost exactly one year after the leadership of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the East German state as a documentation of the irreversibility of the German division. With the completion of German unity on October 3, 1990, many Germans awoke to the fact that unification had undone the political structures of the GDR in a single strike but that the differences between East and West Germans were just coming into the open. For example, on the day of unification, Willy Brandt modified his earlier statement: Today I would say that what politically belongs together from this 3rd of October onward still has to grow together.' And one year later, even the nationalist Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung conceded that national unity had been achieved only in political ter.ms but that real unity was still way down the road.2
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