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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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