Abstract
German Reconciliation ?, by Robert Picht Four years after the fall of the Wall, Germany appears more divided than ever. The current German crisis goes deeper than the problems of economie recession that was aggravated by massive financial transfers to the East. The psychological and cultural difficulties are considérable. The two former German states and their societies developed in opposite directions. On the one hand, the East-Germans must undergo a double frustration. They have to reject their past as a failure ; and they must accept that the dream of a brilliant capitalistic future is illusory. On the other hand, the West-Germans have problems justifying their policy of European integration as well as their former cooperation with the communist regimes. In this double crisis of national identity - one that raises old questions about German history and, in particular, about the nature of Nazism - it is more appropriate to consider the birth of the new Germany as unification than as reunification.
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