Abstract
For over three decades, the Bonn governments have justified their Deutschlandpolitik partly on the basis of both the East and the West Germons' wish for reunification. Public opinion polls in the FRG show however an ambiguity : the West Germans certainly do wish Germany to be reunited, but that is one of their lowest-ranking priorities. The GDR is increasingly a foreign country for them, even though they visit it in increasing numbers. Conversely, while relatively few East Germans can cross the border, the inhabitants of the GDR live partly in West Germany's political culture. This strange symbiosis nurtures in certain sectors of the population, West and East, the nostalgia of a third road.
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