When the Wall Came Down - 9781138175723

Taylor & Francis

When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash. > Introduction; Introduction; West Germany; A Ten-Point Program for Overcoming the Division of Germany and Europe; Berlin City Hall Speech; Berlin City Hall Speech; Ignoring the Chancelleries; The Silence of the Clerks; Don't Reunify Germany; Why We Are Not a Nation\u2014And Why We Should Become One; The West Is Getting Wilder; The Phantom of the Nation; Rigmarole; Yet Again: German Identity\u2014A Unified Nation of Angry DM-Burghers?; Reunification II: This Time, No Hobnail Boots; Uncomfortable Questions; The Two Plus Four Settlement; East Germany; \u201CAwakening 89\u2014New Forum\u201D; A Plea to Get Involved in Our Own Cause; Declaration of New Forum on the Fortieth Anniversary of the GDR; Protest Demonstration at Berlin-Alexanderplatz; Notes on the Reaction