ABSTRACT
One could see bits of “Prussian feeling” accumulating and the gigantic West Berlin exhibition have tried to “draw a balance” of splendors and miseries of Prussian past. A Socialist mayor took the initiative, a Conservative mayor opened it; but little was heard from the “legitimate successors” of the powers-that-used-to-be in Mark Brandenburg. Neither President Carstens nor Chancellor Schmidt made the trip from Bonn, and the author detected no trace of any minister. And with that European thinkers are already deep into the controversy of the Prussian Exhibition. There must be a hundred books and at least a thousand important articles published on the subject pro et contra. It was not quite the old-time “Four in a Jeep,” but European thinkers all sat together, Easterners and Westerners, for several days under the camera-eye of Austrian television and within shouting distance of its microphones, trying to make believe they had some kind of “togetherness” in common.
