When the Wall Came Down

Introduction; Introduction; West Germany; A Ten-Point Program for Overcoming the Division of Germany and Europe; Berlin City Hall Speech; Berlin City Hall Speech; Ignoring the Chancelleries; The Silence of the Clerks; Don't Reunify Germany; Why We Are Not a Nationâ"And Why We Should Become One; The West Is Getting Wilder; The Phantom of the Nation; Rigmarole; Yet Again: German Identityâ"A Unified Nation of Angry DM-Burghers?; Reunification II: This Time, No Hobnail Boots; Uncomfortable Questions; The Two Plus Four Settlement; East Germany; âAwakening 89â"New Forumâ; A Plea to Get Involved in Our Own Cause; Declaration of New Forum on the Fortieth Anniversary of the GDR; Protest Demonstration at Berlin-Alexanderplatz; Notes on the Reactions of Progressive Forces to the Current Domestic Political Situation in the GDR; Pious Wishes, Open Questions; The Forty Year Itch; But Gysi Does Not Despair; Germany United and Divided; Why We Hoped; The Great Waiting, or The Freedom of the East; United States; Hidden Words; It's Already Happening; The German Revival; âNOâ to German Reunification; Kohl at Gamp David; Ten for Germany; Uneasy About the Germans; A Plan for Europe; East German Requiem; The Attack on Christa Wolf; Germany: Power and the Left; United Kingdom; Beware, the Reich Is Reviving; Two Germanys Don't Add Up; West Germany's Green Imperialism; Germans Lack the Key to Their National Identity; What the PM Learnt About the Germans; Fawlty Logic; The Chequers Affair; Finding a New Weak Link; The New Germany; France; Toward a Confederal System; Police Logic Often Prevails Over Common Sense and Political Reason; A New Row Between an Old Couple; After 45 Years, the War Is Over; Mitterrand Sees Threat to His âGrand Designâ; Germany in the Singular; Italy; Germany and History Have Taken a Leap; Changes in the European Equilibrium; I Do Not Fear German Nationalism; Israel; The Grand Appeasement; Unholy Trinity; Now We Shall be Reduced to Our Due Place Within German Priorities; East Germany, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us?; The Unification of the Germanysâ" A World Disaster; Czechoslovakia; Speech on 15 February 1990 on the occasion of the visit of President Richard von Weizs¤cker to Prague; Poland; Both Partners and Competitors; Not Only for Ourselves; Attentionâ"An Ambush!; Dignified Partnership; Opportunity Rather Than a Threat; This Is One Party I Think I'll Miss; Soviet Union; Political Diary: Germany, Victory or Defeat?; Germany and the âSoviet Issue'; At the USSR Supreme Soviet; Japan; A New Rendezvous with Destiny; Germany's New Start and Japan