Comments on: East Germany’s West German Fans

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:24:51 +0000

Jens-Olaf is right on this one - the prospect of unification was downright unpopular among segments of the West German population in 1989 and early 1990.

Thus the political class was most reluctant to push the issue…

By: Jens-Olaf

Jens-Olaf — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:15 +0000

But the West Germans were not the driving force toward unification in 1990. It was done by the first free national election in the GDR were the East
Germans voted for parties which supported the unifaction. Unification was part of the West German constitution, FRG. But in the beginning of the process before March 1990 even western conservative politicians were reluctant to think that way. Helmut Kohl included.

By: lirelou

lirelou — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:52:33 +0000

Fits in very nicely with this piece, which I purloined from the “Arts and Letters” website. The pro-East German West Germans and pro-Nork South Koreans are hardly alone.

http://www.city-journal.org/ht.....acket.html

By: Paul H.

Paul H. — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:44:48 +0000

I caught part of this movie on TV not too long ago — there will definitely need to be a Korean version someday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye_Lenin%21

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:04:18 +0000

I was equally confused at first…

By: Ledtim

Ledtim — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:01:36 +0000

I spent entirely too much time trying to figure out why the title of the post seemed like the opposite of the content.

Than I realized it was talking about West German fans of East Germany, not Fans of West Germans in East Germany.

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:38:49 +0000

I, as a German citizen, agree with the criticism of the “Ostpolitik”.

At least, even among the staunchest West German admirers of Communism nobody ever suggested turning back East German refugees…