The Quest for a United Germany by Ferenc A. Váli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Váli, Ferenc A. (Ferenc Albert), 1905-1984.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German reunification question (1949-1990).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 318 p.) map (on lining papers)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, [1967]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1967. The ramifications of the German problem and its intricate nature make its comprehensive presentation within the limits of a manageable volume a matter of painful selection and difficult apportionment.

Contents:

Cover

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. GERMANY: ONE OR MANY

The Germanys

The "Belated" German Nation

Planning Germany's Dismemberment

The Potsdam Conference

From Quadripartite to Bipartite Germany

The Battle for Berlin-A Battle for Germany

German Governments in the West and East

European Integration, Rearmament, and Reunification

East-West Exchanges on Germany's Unity

West Germany Joins the Atlantic Alliance

The Spirit of Geneva and Reunification

Stalemate over Germany

II. THE REUNIFICATION QUESTION IN WEST GERMAN POLITICS

The Basic Law and German Unity

The Federal Government and the Reunification Issue

The CDU /CSU and Reunification

The Social Democratic Party and Reunification

Bipartisan Reunification Policy

The FDP and the Reunification

After Erhard-The Grand Coalition

The Splinter-Parties and Reunification

III. WEST GERMANS AND THE REUNIFICATION QUESTION

The West German Elite and Reunification

Advocates of a Recognition of the Status Quo

Ambassador Kroll's Individual Initiative

The Churches and Reunification

Mass Opinion and Reunification

Was Starlinger Right?

IV. EAST GERMANY AND REUNIFICATION

Recognition of the German Democratic Republic

The Hallstein Doctrine

The SEO and Reunification

The D.D.R. and Reunification

Reunification and the East Germans

V. BERLIN AND THE REUNIFICATION PROBLEM

Status of Berlin in Theory and Practice

The Second Battle for Berlin and the Wall

The Question of Access Routes to Berlin

After the Wall-Future of the Berlin Problem

VI. THE REUNIFICATION PROBLEM AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Soviet Foreign Policy and the German Question

Poland, the Oder-Neisse Border, and Reunification

Reunification and East-Central Europe

The Western Powers and Reunification.

VII. THE GERMAN PROBLEM OF THE MIDTWENTIETH CENTURY

The Meaning of Self-Determination and Reunification

The Moral Issue

The National Issue

The International Issue

Whither Germany?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliography: p. 291-309.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0644-5

1-4214-3367-2

OCLC:

1122161001