Dec 31, 2009
Article abstract: German reunification increases the nation’s political weight in European affairs and clearly symbolizes the surmounting of the “Iron Curtain” that had divided Europe since 1945.
The defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 brought to the surface a recurrent “German question,” which asked how the powerful German nation might be prevented from dominating European politics. Both of the world wars were in large part a consequence of German aggression. The rise of Hitler in the 1930’s seemed to demonstrate the inadequacy...
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