Oct 9, 2009
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While the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago are getting a lot of attention right now, the reactions of Germany’s neighbors and the period of limbo that lasted from October 1989 until German reunification a year later get less attention. Here’s a quick sketch of the hopes and fears that swirled around the main event back in those heady days:
1989:
· West Germans largely supported unification, but many were concerned about the unreconstructed nature of Easterners (i.e., they’d been told that they were innocent of the Nazi’s crimes, since, as[...]
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