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Unchained eagle : Germany after the wall / Tom Heneghan.

Van Pelt Library DD290.25 .H46 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Heneghan, Tom, 1951 November 17-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Germany--History--Unification, 1990.
Germany.
History.
Germany--History--1990-.
Germany--Politics and government--1990-.
Politics and government.
Political parties--Germany.
Political parties.
Kohl, Helmut, 1930-2017.
Kohl, Helmut.
Physical Description:
xvi, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Reuters : Pearson Education, 2000.
Contents:
Chapter 1 To the Berlin Republic 1
Kohl's legacy 3
Fears for reunification 4
"All politics is local" 7
Shedding the Post-War Chains
Chapter 2 Before the fall 13
The disunited past 14
The ice thaws 16
Stabalitat uber alles 17
Chapter 3 The Iron Curtain crumbles 21
The floodgates burst open 23
Life punishes those who come too late 27
9 November 1989 29
Chapter 4 The Wall falls 31
"We can't hold up any more" 32
Kohl seizes the initiative 33
Mistrust abroad 36
SPD on the spot 37
Meanwhile in the East 39
The rush to unity 39
The frantic fortnight 42
East Germany votes 45
Chapter 5 From treaties to unity 49
Turning the economy around 50
The Unity and Election Treaties 52
The Two Plus Four treaty 55
The meetings 56
Unity at last 58
The campaign finishes 59
Disunited Germany
Chapter 6 The helpless giant 65
Protesters fill the gap 67
Chequebook diplomacy 69
The home front 71
Yugoslavia implodes 72
Germany gets its way 75
Chapter 7 The Bonn-Berlin debate 79
The permanent provisional capital 80
Berlin! Berlin? 81
The search for consensus 83
The vote 84
The foot-dragging begins 87
Chapter 8 The ugly Germans 89
The return of the repressed 90
The asylum debate and neo-Nazi violence 93
Confusion as violence spreads 96
Rebels without a cause 100
Chapter 9 Another past to live down 104
Difficult targets 105
The man without a face 107
The Honecker trial 108
Prisoners of German history 110
History and hysteria 111
Inside the beast 112
Stolpe slows the steamroller 114
Crimes and culprits 115
Chapter 10 The blossoming landscapes 118
Making aquariums out of fish soup 119
Erhard's worst fears come true 121
The Trehand 122
The turnaround 127
Chapter 11 Towards a German Europe? 131
Two sides of the same coin 132
The road to Maastricht 134
The monetary mess 138
Widening, deepening, narrowing, excluding 140
Chapter 12 Ossis and Wessis 143
We are the people! Who are we? 144
Ossis 145
Ostalgie 148
Wessis 150
Life in a redivided land 151
Chapter 13 Electing a lame duck 154
SPD up, Kohl down 155
The super election year 156
The red socks 158
The second all-German election 160
Single country, split electorate 161
Change in continuity 162
Founding the Berlin Republic
Chapter 14 Normal at last? 167
Painful anniversaries 168
8 May 170
The European neighbour 171
The Bosnia Tornado vote 173
The SPD on the move 174
Enter the new era 176
Chapter 15 No money at home, new money for Europe 178
Consensus or confrontation? 179
Reforming Europe the German way 181
"The euro speaks German!" 184
King Kohl 186
Chapter 16 Time for a change 191
"Hello, candidate!" 192
The new politics 193
Kohl's European dream sours 194
The New Centre 196
The election 198
Chapter 17 The past that will not pass away 201
Slave labour, Nazi gold, fascist prayerbooks 202
The Holocaust memorial 204
Wehrmacht crimes 205
The willing listeners 206
Chapter 18 Red-Green in power 211
Where's Schroder? 212
Life after Helmut 215
Oskar quits 216
Germans as liberators 217
Europe again 219
The Third Way 220
Chapter 19 The Berlin Republic 224
Burying the Bonn Republic 226
Winds of economic change 229
The East, ten years later 231
Welcome to the Berlin Republic 233.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0273650122
OCLC:
47867797

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