Abstract
Contemporary West Germany is in what Theo Sommer, editor of liberal weekly, Die Zeit, has called a deep crisis of identity.' More than forty years after Germany's defeat in Second World War, majority of West Germans are finally confronting reality of their situation, a reality they have long chosen to ignore or forget: Not a nation, not a culture, hardly a society but an entity, a country which has been economically successful, and one in which economic success has been closely linked to success of political institutions.2 At a time of world-wide economic and political uncertainty, and increased competition abroad coupled with economic struggle and high unemployment at home, many West Germans have started to look inward, to question their identity. Symptomatic of this search for identity has been growing number of books, journals, and articles dealing with Identity, the German Nation, or the German Question. In 1986, Bublies & Hoeffkes, publishers of national revolutionary journal wir selbst (see below), distributed a catalogue tided Germany and German Question, which listed hundred most important tides on German
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