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- LETTERS, Page 6A Unified Germany
-
- How can Charles Krauthammer write in "Return of the German
- Question" (ESSAY, Sept. 25) that the dream of a reunited
- Germany is "everybody's nightmare"? Reunification is no
- nightmare but a demand for self-determination. All of West
- Germany's democratic parties support the European Community, and
- the first and foremost aim of the people in a reunited Germany
- will be to live in peace with the world.
-
- Siegfried Korber Bunde, West Germany
-
- Krauthammer casts his flawed argument against "everybody's
- nightmare" in language that implies static history. The fact
- is, West Germany has become extensively and deeply democratic.
- The tug-of-war he depicts between West and East has already been
- won by democratization; Bonn (and Hamburg and Munich) is
- fundamentally Western in ways that historical Berlin never was.
- If Central Europe is again to become a key regional actor, this
- will come about through democratization in Hungary,
- Czechoslovakia and other countries in the area. Then we will see
- historically impossible relationships among nations like the one
- that has developed between Germany and France.
-
- Douglas Durasoff, Chair Department of Political Science
- Seattle Pacific University Seattle
-