ABSTRACT

When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part |84 pages

West Germany

chapter |4 pages

Berlin City Hall Speech

chapter |4 pages

Berlin City Hall Speech

chapter |2 pages

Ignoring the Chancelleries

chapter |5 pages

The Silence of the Clerks

chapter |3 pages

Don't Reunify Germany

chapter |6 pages

The West Is Getting Wilder

Intellectuals and the German Question: The Claims Are Being Staked Out

chapter |6 pages

The Phantom of the Nation

Why We Are Not a Nation Anymore and Why We Do Not Have to Become One—A Futile Interruption in the Intellectuals' Debate About German Unity

chapter |3 pages

Rigmarole

chapter |2 pages

Uncomfortable Questions

part |50 pages

East Germany

chapter |2 pages

“Awakening 89—New Forum”

Call for the Founding of New Forum 10 September 1989

chapter |5 pages

A Plea to Get Involved in Our Own Cause

Flier of the Citizens' Movement “Democracy Now” of September 12, 1989

chapter |1 pages

Declaration of New Forum on the Fortieth Anniversary of the GDR

Appeal to All Members of the SED

chapter |5 pages

Protest Demonstration at Berlin-Alexanderplatz

Texts of recorded speeches by Stefan Heym, Christoph Hein, and Christa Wolf 4 November 1989

chapter |4 pages

Pious Wishes, Open Questions

chapter |8 pages

The Forty Year Itch

chapter |3 pages

But Gysi Does Not Despair

chapter |3 pages

Germany United and Divided

Interview with Gregor Gysi

chapter |5 pages

Why We Hoped

Interview with Christa Wolf

chapter |8 pages

The Great Waiting, or The Freedom of the East

An Obituary for Life in Sleeping Beauty's Castle

part |53 pages

United States

chapter |2 pages

Hidden Words

chapter |5 pages

It's Already Happening

chapter |7 pages

The German Revival

chapter |2 pages

Kohl at Gamp David

chapter |2 pages

Ten for Germany

chapter |7 pages

Uneasy About the Germans

chapter |5 pages

A Plan for Europe

chapter |3 pages

East German Requiem

chapter |4 pages

The Attack on Christa Wolf

part |32 pages

United Kingdom

chapter |3 pages

Two Germanys Don't Add Up

chapter |3 pages

West Germany's Green Imperialism

chapter |2 pages

Fawlty Logic

chapter |5 pages

The Chequers Affair

chapter |1 pages

Finding a New Weak Link

chapter |3 pages

The New Germany

part |11 pages

Italy

part |15 pages

Poland

chapter |3 pages

Both Partners and Competitors

chapter |2 pages

Not Only for Ourselves

chapter |2 pages

Attention—An Ambush!

chapter |3 pages

Dignified Partnership

chapter |2 pages

Opportunity Rather Than a Threat

part |11 pages

Soviet Union

part |6 pages

Japan