PARTNER: GERMANY - SERBIA
HISTORY
The Story Of
GERMAN REUNIFICATION 3rd October 1990: End of the struggle for unification, beginning of the struggle for unity
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The Past is a Foreign Country is the title of American historian David Lowenthal’s famous monograph. For the generations born during the previous thirty years, East and West Germany are indeed “foreign countries”. From today’s perspective, many would at first glance agree with the statement of (East) German writer Stefan Heym that the German Democratic Republic