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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